Cigarette = папироса/сигарета/сигаретка
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learn_russianDo these three words refer to something different?
папироса
сигарета
сигаретка
I did a little research and it said that папироса has a cardboard mouthpiece. That seems odd. Are there such cigarettes in Russia? Or, is that referring to a "filter", that is common with American cigarettes?
сигаретка appears to be in some kind of diminutive form. Do they have "little cigarettes", smaller than the average size, in Russia?
Which is more common?
David Emerling
Memphis, TN
папироса
сигарета
сигаретка
I did a little research and it said that папироса has a cardboard mouthpiece. That seems odd. Are there such cigarettes in Russia? Or, is that referring to a "filter", that is common with American cigarettes?
сигаретка appears to be in some kind of diminutive form. Do they have "little cigarettes", smaller than the average size, in Russia?
Which is more common?
David Emerling
Memphis, TN
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Date: 2010-08-12 04:28 pm (UTC)Сигаретка has not "уменьшительный", but "ласкательный" meaning.
Папироска, папироска is a sort of Russian speciality. :-) Папироса and сигарета are frequently synonyms, папироса has a bit obsolete nuance.
As far as I know, there are no "small cigarettes" in Russia, smaller than average size. Even though, they would be called сигареты, not necessarily сигаретки.
The most common word is сигарета.
Anastasia Kuznetsova
Basel, Switzerland