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hookah
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hook·ah  (hk)
n.
An Eastern smoking pipe designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through. Also called hubble-bubble, narghile.

[Urdu, from Arabic uqqa, small box, the hookah's water urn, from aqqa, to be true, be suitable; see qq in Semitic roots.]

hookah, hooka [ˈhʊkə]
n
(Law / Recreational Drugs) an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc., consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled Also called hubble-bubble kalian narghile water pipe
[from Arabic huqqah]
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Noun1.hookahhookah - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

hookah
noun water pipe, hubble-bubble, narghile, kalian smoking a hookah
Translations
hookah [ˈhʊkɑː] Nnarguile m
hookah
n (Brit) → Wasserpfeife f, → Huka f
hookah [ˈhʊkə] nnarghilè m inv
hookah [ˈhʊkə] nnarghilè m inv


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Royals and noblemen bathe, hunt and enjoy hookahs, wine and women with great abandon in the discreet gallery rooms.
 
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