nargileh

2 definitions found

nargileh - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nargile \Nar"gile\, Nargileh \Nar"gi*leh\, n. [Per.
     n[=a]rgh[imac]l, prop., a cocoanut; prob. so called because
     first made of a cocoanut.]
     An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible
     tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. Also called
     hoookah and water pipe. Functionally similar to the
     hubble-bubble, a simplified form.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

nargileh - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nargileh
      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]