hookah
pronunciation
How to pronounce hookah in British English:
UK [ˈhʊkə]
How to pronounce hookah in American English:
US [ˈhʊkə]
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- Noun:
- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Word Origin
- hookah (n.)
- also hooka, 1763, from Arabic huqqah "small box, vessel" (through which the smoke is drawn), extended in Urdu to the whole apparatus.
Example
- 1. Come to the hookah lounge and enjoy our flavored tobaccos .
- 2. They stole me hookah and me brews !
- 3. I just thought a hookah smoking caterpillar on a mushroom looked awesome .
- 4. And it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again .
- 5. Before leaving baghdad , I stop in al karradah district to buy an iraqi-made hookah to take back home .