hookah

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).

Bhavani Charan was still smoking his hookah. — Stories from Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore
“Go!” said Mahbub Ali, returning to his hookah. — Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Have 'em in native costume--beads, red slippers, hookahs, hoochi-koochis." — By Advice of Counsel, Arthur Cheney Train

narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly

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