cigar

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

cigar (plural cigars)

1. A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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 Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     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.’

2. (slang) The penis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• stogie

• cheroot
• cigarette
• cigarillo

• Agric., Craig, agric., argic, craig

• cigarro

Originally a learned modification of cigarro in order to avoid the Spanish-appearing termination -arro.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [siˈɣar]

cigar m (plural cigars)

1. cigar

• cigarrer
• cigarret

• “cigar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish cigarro.

• IPA^(key): /siɡaːr/, [siˈɡ̊ɑːˀ]

cigar c (singular definite cigaren, plural indefinite cigarer)

1. cigar