NARGHILE

hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

narghile (plural narghiles)

A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.

Synonyms: hookah, waterpipe

Coordinate terms: shisha, hubbly bubbly

Anagrams

• nargileh

Source: Wiktionary



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