cigar

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarra (“cicada”) or from a Mayan language, see siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

cigar (plural cigars)

1. Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess:

     A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’

• stogie

• cheroot
• cigarette
• cigarillo

• Agric., Craig, argic, craig

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /siˈɡaɾ/

cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

From Spanish cigarro.

• IPA^(key): /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)

1. cigar