hookah

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We are told the hookah is the modern Moroccan way to smoke what they call shisha.

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  1. 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.

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  • Fitting the bowl top back in place, he said, "It's called a hookah, or a narghile Does a genie come out when you rub it?" —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • In these end days the Nazim became premier to a khan completely lost to his harem and hookah, and this Nazim went south to form the principality that inspired our development of Travancore on a similar system. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Yusuf took a deep pull on the hookah, and held the smoke in his lungs for a long while before answering. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • He lit his hookah, and looked towards the shipyards. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • In other words, smoking a hookah is quite commonplace, and does not automatically mean it's hashish. —  بالاترین
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  1. Urdu, from Arabic ḥuqqa, small box, the hookah's water urn, from ḥaqqa, to be true, be suitable; see ḥqq in Semitic roots.
 

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