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nargeel

nargeel is the obsolete form of narghile.

Meaning of narghile

Noun

narghile (plural narghiles)

  1. A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.
    • He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 76, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    Synonyms:
    hookah, shisha, waterpipe

Forms of nargeel

pluralnargeels

Questions about nargeel

What is nargeel the obsolete form of?
Nargeel is the obsolete form of narghile.

Words near nargeel in the dictionary

  1. Narew
  2. Narez
  3. Narezes
  4. narezushi
  5. narg
  6. nargeel
  7. nargeela
  8. nargeelah
  9. nargeelahs
  10. nargeelas
  11. nargery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nargeel (page history and authors); narghile (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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