Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.

• IPA: /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, page 46 ↗:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:

     Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
     Patient: Um, what is it?
     Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation.
     Patient: Infumation?
     Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
     Patient: What, like cigarettes?
     Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco.
     Patient: But medicated?
     Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
     Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes?
     Tobacconist: That's right.
     Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
     Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
     Patient: Twenty a day?
     Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

• French: cigarette
• German: Zigarette, Kippe (colloquial)
• Italian: sigaretta
• Portuguese: cigarro
• Russian: сигаре́та
• Spanish: cigarrillo, pitillo (dated, Spain)

cigarette (cigarettes, present participle cigaretting; simple past and past participle cigaretted)

1. (transitive, slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, or to light one for them.

   Could someone cigarette me?