sigar

sigar (genitive sigari, partitive sigarit)

1. cigar

From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarra (“grasshopper”), or from Mayan sicar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”).

• IPA^(key): /siˈkaːɹ/

sigar m (genitive singular sigarar, plural sigarir)

1. cigar (rolled stick of tobacco)

From Spanish cigarro (“cigar, cigarette”), possibly from a Mayan language such as Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”) or Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”), possibly also from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cicāla (or an alternate Iberian variant form *cicāra), from Latin cicāda (“cicada”), possibly from a substrate language, ultimately onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈɡɑːr/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːr
• Hyphenation: si‧gar

sigar m (definite singular sigaren, indefinite plural sigarer, definite plural sigarene)

1. (smoking) a cigar (tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked)
   • 1954, Agnar Mykle, Lasso rundt fru Luna, page 384:

     han stod og pattet på en sigar

     he was standing and sucking on a cigar

   • 1998, Herbjørg Wassmo, Karnas arv, page 46:

     enda var han rett i ryggen, stor og røslig og luktet sigar på lang avstand

     yet he was straight in the back, big and rosy and smelled of cigar from a long distance

   • 1998, Anne Connie Stuksrud, Rust, page 49:

     han lener seg tilbake på stolen og tenner en sigar

     he leans back in his chair and lights a cigar

• sigarett (“cigarette”)
• sigarillo (“cigarillo”)

• “sigar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sigar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “sigar” in Store norske leksikon

• grisa

From Spanish cigarro.

sigar m (definite singular sigaren, indefinite plural sigarar, definite plural sigarane)

1. a cigar

• sigarett

• “sigar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.