chillum
/ˈt͡ʃɪləm/
chillum noun: a conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
Noun
chillum (plural chillums)
- A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
- He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 521
- The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence.c. 1893, "Note by Babu Abhilas Chandra Mukerji, second Inspector of Excise, on the Origin and History of Trinath Worship in Eastern Bengal", in Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4
- The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.
chillum meaning in Urdu
chillum in Urdu
- chillum
- چلم cilam
Forms of chillum
| plural | chillums |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cheelam |
| alternative form | chelam |
| alternative form | chilam |
| alternative form | chillam |
| alternative form | tchilim |
Origin of chillum
Borrowed from Hindustani चिलम (cilam) / چِلَم (cilam), from Classical Persian چِلَم (čilam).
Words formed from chillum
Questions about chillum
- What does chillum mean?
- Chillum means a conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
- What is chillum in Urdu?
- Chillum in Urdu is چلم (cilam). See Chillum meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is chillum?
- Chillum is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chillum?
- Chillum is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪləm/.
- What is the plural of chillum?
- The plural of chillum is chillums.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chillum (page history and authors); چلم (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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