hookah

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hookah
    n 1: 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" [syn:
         {hookah}, {narghile}, {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha},
         {chicha}, {calean}, {kalian}, {water pipe}, {hubble-
         bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hookah \Hook"ah\ (h[oo^]k"[.a]), 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. Also called
   {narghile} and {water pipe}. The {hubble-bubble} is a simple
   form of this device.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hookah":
      Missouri meerschaum, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet,
      churchwarden, clay, corncob, corncob pipe, hubble-bubble,
      meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack,
      tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipe

    

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