hookah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

/ˈhʊ.kə/ /ˈhu.kə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hookah.wav

hookah hookahs hooka hooker houka hukka hukkah huqqa huqqah

Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).

hubble-bubble hubbly bubbly narghile shisha

hookah air compressor hookah air pump hookah-burdar hookah compressor hookah dive hookah dive compressor hookah dive pump hookah diving hookah pump

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