hookah
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi हुक़्क़ा (हुक़्क़ा) and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu حقہ (huqqā), in turn, derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: hook‧ah
Noun
hookah (plural hookahs)
- A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
- 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:
- In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur[1], chapter 18:
- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
- 1960, Harper Lee, chapter 9, in To Kill a Mockingbird:
- When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.
- 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:
Synonyms
Translations
pipe
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