hookah
Syllables: hook·ahUK/ˈhʊ.kə//ˈhu.kə/
hookah noun: a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
Noun
hookah (plural hookahs)
- A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
- In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the...1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction
- Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67
- Synonyms:
- hubble-bubble, hubbly bubbly, narghile, shisha
- A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.
hookah meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi
hookah in Hindi
- pipe
- हुक़्क़ा huqqā, हुक्का hukkā
hookah in Urdu
- pipe
- حُقَّہ huqqa
hookah in Bengali
- pipe
- হুক্কা hukka
hookah in Punjabi
- pipe
- ਹੁੱਕਾ hukkā
More languagesFewer languages
- hookah in Gujarati
- હૂકાહ hūkāh
- hookah in Sanskrit
- नारिकेला nārikelā
- hookah in Nepali
- हुक़्क़ा huqqā
- hookah in Arabic
- شِيشَة šīša, نَارْجِيلَة nargīla, أَرْكِيلَة ʔargīla
- hookah in Malay
- syisya, gudu-gudu, hukah
- hookah in Indonesian
- hokah
- hookah in Thai
- มอระกู่ mɔɔ-rá-gùu
- hookah in Vietnamese
- shisha
- Sindhi
- حقو ḥqo
Examples of hookah in a sentence
- There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:
- “Everyone just went back to their hookah and food a minute later,” said Babayan.2026 March 3, Alaina Demopoulos, “Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been...
Synonyms of hookah
Forms of hookah
| plural | hookahs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hooka |
| alternative form | hooker |
| alternative form | houka |
| alternative form | hukka |
| alternative form | hukkah |
| alternative form | huqqa |
| alternative form | huqqah |
Origin of hookah
Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
Words formed from hookah
- hookah air compressor
- hookah air pump
- hookah-burdar
- hookah compressor
- hookah dive
- hookah dive compressor
- hookah dive pump
- hookah diving
- hookah pump
Questions about hookah
- What does hookah mean?
- Hookah means a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
- What is hookah in Hindi?
- Hookah in Hindi is हुक़्क़ा (huqqā), हुक्का (hukkā). See Hookah meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hookah in a sentence?
- There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
- What part of speech is hookah?
- Hookah is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hookah?
- Hookah is pronounced /ˈhʊ.kə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hookah?
- The plural of hookah is hookahs.
Words near hookah in the dictionary
Source and license
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