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Narghile

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water wordnet

Etymology

From French narghilé, from Turkish nargile, from Persian نارگیله (nârgile) from نارگیل (nârgil, “coconut”), which used to be used to construct the bowl, likely ultimately from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela, “coconut”), from a Dravidian language.

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