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Hookah
//ˈhu.kə// noun
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Noun
- 1 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 smoke from."
- 2 an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water wordnet
- 3 A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
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