Definitions for hookah
ˈhʊk əhookah

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubblynoun

   an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

   "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"

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1. Hookahnoun

   A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.

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1. hookahnoun

   a pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water. Originally invented in India, it gained most popularity in the Arab world. It is traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

2. Etymology: From حقہ, from حقة, from حق.

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1. Hookah

   A hookah (Hindustani: حقّہ (Nastaleeq), हुक़्क़ा (Devanagari), IPA: [ˈɦʊqːa]; also see other names), shisha, or waterpipe is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco (often muʽassel), or sometimes cannabis, hashish and opium. The smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation.The major health risks associated with smoking tobacco, cannabis, opium and other drugs through a hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals, carcinogens and heavy metals that are not filtered out by the water, alongside those related to the transmission of infectious diseases and pathogenic bacteria when hookahs are shared. Hookah and waterpipe use is a global public health concern, with high rates of use in the populations of the Middle East and North Africa as well as in young people in the United States, Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia.The hookah or waterpipe was invented by Abul-Fath Gilani, a Persian physician of Akbar, in the Indian city of Fatehpur Sikri during Mughal India; the hookah spread from the Indian subcontinent to Persia first where the mechanism was modified to its current shape and then to the Near East. Alternatively, it could have originated in the Safavid dynasty of Persia, from where it eventually spread to the Indian subcontinent.Despite tobacco and drug use being considered a taboo when the hookah was first conceived, its use became increasingly popular among nobility and subsequently widely accepted. Gradually, burned tobacco has been commonly replaced by vaporizing flavored shisha. Still the original hookah is often used in rural South Asia, which continues to use Tumbak (a pure and coarse form of unflavored tobacco leaves) and smoked by burning it directly with charcoal. While this method delivers a much higher content of tobacco and nicotine, it also incurs more adverse health effects compared to vaporized shisha hookahs.The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", a Hindustani word, of Arabic origin (derived from حُقَّة ḥuqqa, "casket, bottle, water pipe"). Outside its native region, hookah smoking has gained popularity throughout the world, especially among younger people.

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1. hookah

   A hookah is a water pipe typically used for smoking flavored tobacco, often called shisha. Originating from the Middle East and India, hookah has become popular worldwide. The smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water before being inhaled by the user. Its design often incorporates one or more flexible tubes, through which multiple users can smoke at the same time.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hookahnoun

   a pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water

2. Etymology: [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.]

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1. Hookah

   A hookah, also known as a waterpipe, narghile, arghila, or qalyān, is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin before inhalation. Depending on the placement of the coal above the shisha, a hookah can be used to produce smoke by burning the shisha or used to create water vapor by melting it at a lower temperature. When a waterpipe is used to produce smoke, it is usually referred to as a hookah, which means "jar" in Arabic. When the same device is used to vaporize shisha, it is usually referred to as a nargile, which means "gourd" in Sanskrit. The vapor from a nargile looks similar enough to the smoke from a hookah as to cause both users and medical professionals to often confuse the two. The origin of the waterpipe is around the area which includes India, and Persia, or at a transition point between the two. The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", which is what the Arabs called it. According to author Cyril Elgood, who does not mention his source, it was Abul-Fath Gilani, a Persian physician at the Indian court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who "first passed the smoke of tobacco through a small bowl of water to purify and cool the smoke and thus invented the hubble-bubble or hookah." Nevertheless, a quatrain of Ahli Shirazi refers to the use of the ḡalyān in Safavid Iran. Smoking the hookah has gained popularity outside of its native region, in India, Pakistan and the Middle East, and is gaining popularity in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, Tanzania and South Africa.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hookah

   Hooka, hōō′ka, n. the water tobacco-pipe of Arabs, Turks, &c. [Ar. huqqa.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hookah in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hookah in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hookah in a Sentence

1. Belal Mahmoud:

   We were not able to win the real World Cup, so we just got it as a shisha (hookah), Ramadan lantern and whichever way we can.

2. Aruni Bhatnagar:

   People believe that occasional use of hookah does not really matter because they would not get addicted.

3. Nada Kassem:

   In addition to inhaling toxicants and carcinogens found in the hookah tobacco smoke, hookah smokers, and non-smokers who socialize with them, also inhale large quantities of charcoal combustion-generated toxic and carcinogenic emissions.

4. Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji:

   This photo shows a building where anyone can pen verses and hang them on the wall -- their own creations or an old favorite, it's also a place for drinking tea and smoking hookah.

5. Mohammed Jawad:

   The general public should be made aware of the harms of this hookah smoking through increased regulation and health promotion efforts.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hookah
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=hookah
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hookah
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hookah
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hookah
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hookah