hookah : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hookah	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hookah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hookah n 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" Synonym(s): hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble- bubble, hubbly-bubbly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oocr]k"[adot]), n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.