hookah
A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally…A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
» I found Tom smoking a hookah.
Meaning
2 sensesA pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
Wasserpfeife, Schischa, Shisha
калья́нkalʹján
калья́нkalʹján
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.
Examples
13 sentencesI found Tom smoking a hookah.
I want to smoke a hookah again.
ruЯ хочу снова покурить кальян.
He was smoking a hookah with lemon flavour.
ruОн курил кальян с ароматом лимона.
Sami has brought his hookah in a backpack.
Sami put the hookah back into his backpack.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
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