hookah

(ho̵okə, ho̵̅o̅)

or hooka

noun

a kind of water pipe associated with the Middle East, with a long flexible tube for drawing the smoke through water in a vase or bowl and cooling it

Origin: Ar ḥuqqa, pipe for smoking, vase

See hookah in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
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.

Origin:

Origin: Urdu

Origin: , from Arabic ḥuqqa, small box, the hookah's water urn

Origin: , from ḥaqqa, to be true, be suitable; see ḥqq in Semitic roots

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