narghile

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"It is a fallacy that smoking the narghile is a safer alternative to smoking.

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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
  • His hands were small, but strong and nervous, with little flesh upon them, and the fingers were long and shapely When Harry was seated he resettled himself on the sofa, and, keeping his eyes fixed on the lad, placed the amber mouth-piece of a long spiral tube connected with a narghile which was smouldering on the floor to his lips, and the gurgling sound was once more produced. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
  • It was a convenient establishment, where you could get a meal, or a bottle of wine, or even beer, if you would pay for it, or simply take a chibouque or narghile, and a cup of coffee or a sherbet Try the lemonade; they make it first-rate here," said Howard; and Harry took his advice, and swallowed a big glassful of nectar, which no iced champagne he had ever drunk could beat. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
  • But the "narghile," the "kaleoon," the "hookah," the "hubble-bubble," whence came they? —  Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850
  • The young wife was looking at her husband who was smoking a narghile, the only form of pipe she would have suffered in that room. —  Paz
 

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  1. French narghilé, obsolete variant of narguilé, from Persian nārgīleh, from nārgīl, coconut (from which the receptacle was made), from Sanskrit nārikelaḥ, nālikeraḥ.
 

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/ˈnɑrgɪlɛ/
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