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سِيجارَة
cigarette /siːˈɡaːra/
nounB1#1725 most common
Also: smoke (a single cigarette)
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ سِيجارَة.
This is a cigarette.
أَشعَلَ سِيجارَةً بَعدَ العَشاء.
He lit a cigarette after dinner.
مَنَعَني الطَبيبُ مِن تَدخينِ السِيجارَة.
The doctor forbade me from smoking cigarettes.
أَطفَأَ سِيجارَتَهُ الأَخيرَة وَوَعَدَ بِأَن يُقلِعَ عَنِ التَدخين.
He put out his last cigarette and promised to quit smoking.
تَصاعَدَ دُخانُ السِيجارَةِ بِبُطءٍ نَحوَ السَقفِ بَينَما كانَ غارِقاً في تَفكيرِه.
The cigarette smoke rose slowly toward the ceiling while he was lost in thought.
لَم تَكُنِ السِيجارَةُ سِوى ذَريعَةٍ لِيُغادِرَ الاِجتِماعَ المُمِلَّ وَيَلتَقِطَ أَنفاسَهُ في الخارِج.
The cigarette was nothing but a pretext to leave the boring meeting and catch his breath outside.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سِيجارَةٌ | سَجائِرُ |
| Genitive | سِيجارَةٍ | سَجائِرَ |
| Accusative | سِيجارَةً | سَجائِرَ |
| Vocative | يا سِيجارَةُ | يا سَجائِرُ |
Word family
Etymology
Arabic borrowed this word from European languages, most likely French cigarette or Spanish cigarro, during the spread of manufactured tobacco. It is a loanword, not built from a native Semitic root. The feminine ending ة fits it into the normal Arabic noun pattern.
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