different between candy vs cigarette

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'di, IPA^(key): /?kændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Etymology 1

From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic ?????? ???????? (sukkar qand?), from Arabic ?????? (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian ???? (kand); likely from Sanskrit ???? (kha??a, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *ka??u; compare Tamil ????? (ka??u, “hard candy”).

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

1. (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
2. (countable, chiefly Canada, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)
• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kai???)
• ? Hopi: kyenti

Translations

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

1. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
2. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

   Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

3. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Translations

See also

• ???? (Unicode candy symbol)

References

Etymology 2

From Marathi ???? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha??ana), from root ????? (kha??, “to divide, break into pieces”).

Alternative forms

• candee
• candie
• kandy

Noun

candy (plural candies)

1. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Translations

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy

English

Alternative forms

• cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??.??t/, /s?.?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: cig?a?rette

Noun

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 20:

     Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (sigre?)
• ? Urdu: ??????
• ? Welsh: sigarét

Translations

Verb

cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)

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

   Could someone cigarette me?

See also

• cigar
• cigarillo
• smoke

French

Etymology

From cigare +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.?a.??t/

Noun

cigarette f (plural cigarettes)

1. cigarette

Synonyms

• clope (colloquial)

Derived terms

• cigarette électronique

Descendants

• ? Danish: cigaret
• ? Dutch: sigaret
• ? English: cigarette
• ? German: Zigarette
• Sicilian: sicaretta

Further reading

• “cigarette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).