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cigarette

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡəɹɛt/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /sɪɡəˈɹɛt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /ˈsɪɡəɹet/
  • Australian: /sɪɡəˈɹet/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈsəɡəɹet/
  • New-Zealand: /səɡəˈɹet/
  • Scotland, Wales: /ˈsɪɡəɾɛt/
  • Scotland, Wales: /sɪɡəˈɾɛt/
  • rhymes with -ɛt
  • CMU ARPABET: S IH2 G ER0 EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, slang, transitive

Examples

  • Could someone cigarette me?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: light up

3

noun

Meaning 3

finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: roll of tobacco, smoke

Narrower terms: cubeb, cubeb cigarette, filter-tipped cigarette, joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etder. French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.

Across languages

Translations

220 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Albanian: cigare — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Amharic: ሲጃራ (siǧara) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Amharic: ሲጋራ (sigara) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Arabic: سِيجَارَة (sigāra) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Arabic: سِجارة (sijāra) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Arabic: سِقارة (sigāra) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Arabic: دُخَّان (duḵḵān) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Arabic: ݣرو (garro) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Armenian: ծխախոտ (cxaxot) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Armenian: սիգարետ (sigaret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Assamese: চিগাৰেট (sigaret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Azerbaijani: papiros — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Azerbaijani: siqaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Bashkir: тәмәке (təməke) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Basque: zigarreta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Belarusian: цыгарэ́та (cyharéta) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Belarusian: папяро́са (papjarósa) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Bengali: সিগারেট (śigareṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Breton: sigaretenn — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Bulgarian: цига́ра (cigára) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Burmese: စီးကရက် (ci:ka.rak) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Burmese: စီးကလိပ် (ci:ka.lip) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Burmese: ဆေးလိပ် (hce:lip) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Carpathian Rusyn: циґаре́тля (cygarétlja) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Catalan: cigarret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Cebuano: sigarilyo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chamorro: sigariyo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chechen: сигарет (sigaret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Cherokee: ᎪᎦᏍᏗ (gogasdi) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Cantonese: 煙仔 /烟仔 (jin1 zai2) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Cantonese: 煙 /烟 (jin1) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Cantonese: 香煙 /香烟 (hoeng1 jin1) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese: янбонбонзы (ianbonbonzɨ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese: янбонбор (ianbonbor) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese: янбонбон (ianbonbon) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 薰囝 (hŏng-giāng) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hakka Chinese: 煙仔 /烟仔 — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hakka Chinese: 菸仔 /烟仔 (yan1 zai3) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese: 薰枝 (hun-ki) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese: 薰 (zh-min-nan) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Mandarin: 香煙 /香烟 (xiāngyān) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙煙 /纸烟 (zhǐyān) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Mandarin: 捲煙 /卷烟 (juǎnyān) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煙 /烟 (yān) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chinese Mandarin: 煙捲兒 /烟卷儿 (yānjuǎnr) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Wu Chinese: 香煙 /香烟 — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chuvash: сигарет (sigaret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Chuvash: пирус (pirus) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Cornish: cigarik — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Czech: cigareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Danish: cigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Dutch: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Elfdalian: sigarett — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Esperanto: cigaredo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Estonian: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Estonian: suits — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Estonian: tobi — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Faroese: sigarett — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Finnish: savuke — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Finnish: tupakka — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Finnish: sätkä — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Finnish: rööki — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • French: cigarette — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • West-Frisian: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Georgian: პაპიროსი (ṗaṗirosi) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Georgian: სიგარეტი (sigareṭi) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • German: Zigarette — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • German: Kippe — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Greek: τσιγάρο (tsigáro) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Greenlandic: cigaretti — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Greenlandic: sikaritsi — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Gujarati: સિગારેટ (sigāreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hebrew: סִיגַרְיָה (sigárya) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hindi: सिगरेट (sigreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hindi: सिग्रेट (sigreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hindi: सुट्टा (suṭṭā) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hindi: बीड़ी (bīṛī) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hungarian: cigaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Hunsrik: Zicker — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Icelandic: sígaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Icelandic: sígó — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ido: sigareto — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ilocano: sigarilio — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Indonesian: rokok — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Interlingua: cigaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Irish: toitín — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Italian: sigaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Japanese: タバコ (tabako) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Japanese: たばこ (tabako) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Japanese: 煙草 — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Japanese: 紙巻き煙草 (kamimaki tabako) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Javanese: udut — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Javanese: udud — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kabuverdianu: sigaru — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kaitag: папру́с (paprús) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kannada: ಸಿಗರೆಟ್ (sigareṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kapampangan: sigariliu — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kazakh: темекі (temekı) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kazakh: шылым (şylym) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kazakh: мүштіксіз темекі (müştıksız temekı) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Khmer: បារី (baarəy) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Korean: 담배 (dambae) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Korean: 궐련 (gwollyeon) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Korean: 연초 (yeoncho) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kristang: fumansa — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Central Kurdish: جگەرە (cgere) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Northern Kurdish: cixare — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kyrgyz: тамеки (tameki) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Kyrgyz: сигарет (sigaret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Lao: ຢາສູບ (yā sūp) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Lao: ບຸຫລີ່ (bu lī) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Lao: ກອກຢາ (kǭk yā) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Latin: sigarellum — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Latvian: cigarete — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Latvian: papiross — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Limburgish: segrèt — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Lithuanian: cigaretė — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Lithuanian: papirosas — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Luxembourgish: Zigarett — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Macedonian: цигара (cigara) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Malay: rokok — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Malay: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Brunei Malay: sigup — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Malayalam: സിഗരട്ട് (sigaraṭṭŭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Maltese: sigaretti — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Manx: tudjeen — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Marathi: सिगरेट (sigreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Mon: ၜံက် — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Mon: ၜံက်သဳဂါရိတ် — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Mon: သဳဂါရိတ် — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Mongolian: тамхи (tamxi) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Mongolian: янжуур (janžuur) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Nauruan: tebeke — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Nepali: सिगरेट (sigareṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sigarett — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Occitan: cigarreta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Odia: ସିଗାରେଟ୍ (sigāreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Odia: କାହାଲୀ (kāhāli) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Pangasinan: sigarilio — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Pannonian Rusyn: циґаретла (cigaretla) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Pashto: سګرېټ (segreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Dari: سِگْرِت (sigrit) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Iranian Persian: سیگار (sigâr) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Iranian Persian: سیگارِت (sigâret) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Polish: papieros — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Polish: cygareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Portuguese: cigarro — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Punjabi: ਸਿਗਰੇਟ (sigreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Réunion Creole French: sigarèt — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Romanian: țigară — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Romanian: țigaretă — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Romansh: cigaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Russian: сигаре́та (sigaréta) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Russian: папиро́са (papirósa) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Russian: сига́рка (sigárka) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Northern Sami: sigareahtta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Samoan: sikareti — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Sanskrit: तमाखुनालि (tamākhunāli) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Scottish Gaelic: toitean — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Scottish Gaelic: toiteag — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Serbo-Croatian: цигарѐта — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Serbo-Croatian: cigarèta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Sicilian: sicaretta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Sinhalese: සිගරෙට්ටුව (sigareṭṭuwa) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Slovak: cigareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Slovene: cigareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Upper Sorbian: cigareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Spanish: cigarrillo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Spanish: pitillo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Swahili: sigara — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Swahili: msokoto — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Swedish: cigarett — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tagalog: sigarilyo — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tagalog: yosi — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tajik: сигарета (sigareta) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tajik: тамоку (tamoku) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tajik: сигор (sigor) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tamil: சிகரெட் (cikareṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tatar: тәмәке (tämäke) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tausug: siga — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Telugu: సిగరెట్టు (sigareṭṭu) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tetum: sigaru — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Thai: ยาสูบ (yaa-sùup) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Thai: บุหรี่ (bù-rìi) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tibetan: ཤོག་དྲིལ་དུ་བ (shog dril du ba) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tibetan: ཐ་མག (tha mag) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tibetan: བཞེས་ཐག (bzhes thag) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tigrinya: ሽጋራ (šəgara) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Turkish: sigara — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Turkish: çilim — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Turkmen: çilim — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Turkmen: papiros — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tuvan: таакпы (taakpı) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Tuvan: папирос (papiros) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ukrainian: сигаре́та (syharéta) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ukrainian: цига́рка (cyhárka) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ukrainian: папіро́с (papirós) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Ukrainian: папіро́са (papirósa) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Urdu: سِگْریٹ (sigreṭ) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Urdu: سُٹَّا (suṭṭā) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Uyghur: سىگارت (sigart) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Uyghur: تاماكا (tamaka) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Uzbek: sigareta — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Uzbek: tutun — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Uzbek: sigaret — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Vietnamese: điếu thuốc lá — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Vietnamese: thuốc lá — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Volapük: zigarül — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Walloon: cigarete — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Welsh: sigarét — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Yiddish: פּאַפּיראָס (papiros) — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Yup'ik: kuingiq — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Yup'ik: melugkaq — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Yup'ik: puyurtaq — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Yup'ik: sapeq — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Isthmus Zapotec: gueza — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Zhuang: iencaej — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Zhuang: iencaij — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
  • Zhuang: ien — thin roll of tobacco made for smoking
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