huqqa

English

Noun

huqqa (plural huqqas)

1. Alternative spelling of hookah
   • 1850, Fanny Parkes Parlby, Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque:

     She never smoked, which surprised me: having seen the Musulman ladies so fond of a huqqa, I concluded the Mahratta ladies indulged in the same luxury.

   • 1962, The British Museum Quarterly, volume 25, page 92:

     As far as I know this is the earliest representation of a huqqa in Indian painting.

   • 2014, Navina Najat Haidar, Courtney Ann Stewart, Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection, page 39:

     Smoking a huqqa was a common pastime among the Indian nobility.