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Uncertain; perhaps from cigarro(“male cicada”), a form of cigarra(“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain, or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar(“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar(“to smoke”).
^ Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
^ Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68
