hookah

hook·ah (h

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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]

(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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Noun

hookah - 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"

calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe

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] N → narguile m

hookah

n (Brit) → Wasserpfeife f, → Huka f

hookah [ˈhʊkə] n → narghilè m inv

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calean Chicha Goracco hubble-bubble hubbly-bubbly kalian narghile nargileh pipe sheesha shisha tobacco tobacco pipe water pipe	Two great tiger-skins thrown athwart it increased the suggestion of Eastern luxury, as did a huge hookah which stood upon a mat in the corner. Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context But outsiders, you know, often see most of the game; and sitting in my arbor by the wayside, smoking my hookah of contentment and eating the sweet lotus-leaves of indolence, I can look out musingly upon the whirling throng that rolls and tumbles past me on the great high-road of life. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context	Hooghly hook hook and eye Hook bill hook check Hook ladder hook line and sinker Hook motion Hook of Holland hook on hook operation hook shot hook spanner Hook squid hook up hook up with hook wrench hook-and-ladder company hook-and-ladder truck hook-billed Hook-billed marlin hook-nosed hook-shaped hook-tip hook-up hookah Hooke Hooke Robert Hooke's gearing Hooke's joint Hooke's law hooked Hookedness Hooker Hooker's green Hooker's onion Hooker's orchid hookey hooking Hooklet hooklike hooknose hooknosed hooks hookup hookworm hookworm disease hooky hooky player Hool hooley	hook-check hook-like hook-like hook-like hook-like hook-like Hook-lipped rhinoceros hook-nosed Hook-on Meter hook-point poison hook-point poison hook-point poison hook-point poison hook-point poison hook-shaped hook-tip Hook-tip moth Hook-Type Fishing Gear Hook-up Hook-up Hook-Up & Commissioning Hook-Up Selection Tool hook-ups hook-ups hook-wall packer Hook. Hook. f. Hook.f. Hooka Hooka hookah Hookahs Hookahs Hookbills Hookbills Hookbills Hookbills Hookbills Hooke Hooke Hooke Hooke joint Hooke joint Hooke joint Hooke law Hooke law Hooke law Hooke law Hooke number Hooke Robert Hooke's gearing Hooke's joint Hooke's joint Hooke's law Hooke's law Hooke's law Hooke's law Hooke's law Hooke, Robert Hooke, Robert Hooke, Robert

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calean
Chicha
Goracco
hubble-bubble
hubbly-bubbly
kalian
narghile
nargileh
pipe
sheesha
shisha
tobacco
tobacco pipe
water pipe

Two great tiger-skins thrown athwart it increased the suggestion of Eastern luxury, as did a huge hookah which stood upon a mat in the corner.

Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context

But outsiders, you know, often see most of the game; and sitting in my arbor by the wayside, smoking my hookah of contentment and eating the sweet lotus-leaves of indolence, I can look out musingly upon the whirling throng that rolls and tumbles past me on the great high-road of life.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context

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