hookah

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.

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

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

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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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hookah [ˈhʊkə] n → narghilè m inv