Narghile

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round
     box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when
     smoking tobacco.]
     A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke
     is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called
     {narghile} and {water pipe}. The {hubble-bubble} is a simple


     form of this device.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  narghile
       n : 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" [syn: {hookah},
            {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha}, {chicha}, {calean}, {kalian},
            {water pipe}, {hubble-bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]