sigarett

From Italian sigaretta, from Spanish cigarette, diminutive of cigare, from Spanish cigarro (“cigar”).

• IPA^(key): /sikaˈɹɛʰtː/

  Rhymes: -ɛʰtː

sigarett f (genitive singular sigarettar, plural sigarettir)

1. cigarette

Borrowed from Italian sigaretta.

• IPA^(key): /sɪ.ɡaˈrɛt/

sigarett m (plural sigaretti)

1. cigarette

From French cigarette (“cigarette”), from cigare (“cigar”), 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, from Latin cicāda (“cicada”), possibly from a substrate language, ultimately onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /sɪɡaˈrɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: si‧ga‧rett

sigarett m (definite singular sigaretten, indefinite plural sigaretter, definite plural sigarettene)

1. (smoking) a cigarette (tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked)

   Synonyms: sigg, siggis

   • 1911, Amalie Pettersen, Pettersens, page 19:

     jeg er ingen ven af kvindeemancipationen med kortklippet haar og frisindede cigaretter

     I'm not a fan of women's emancipation with short hair and free-spirited cigarettes

   • 1998, Bjørg Vik, Roser i et sprukket krus, page 153:

     hun tar et drag av sigaretten hans

     she takes a puff of his cigarette

   • 1991, Tove Nilsen, Amazonaspornografen, page 231:

     jeg legger merke til et brennemerke i trekket etter en sigarett

     I notice a burn mark on the cover of a cigarette

• sigar (“cigar”)
• sigarillo (“cigarillo”)

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

From French cigarette.

sigarett m (definite singular sigaretten, indefinite plural sigarettar, definite plural sigarettane)

1. a cigarette

• “sigarett” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.