Dictionary

hookah en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhʊ.kə/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /ˈhʊ.kə/ (UK)
• /ˈhu.kə/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (qualifier:recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
   • When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 9, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
   • But Dubai is resilient, at least when it comes to partying. “Everyone just went back to their hookah and food a minute later,” said Babayan. 2026 March 3, Alaina Demopoulos, “Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • 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. 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:
   • The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah. 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 18, in The Subtle Minotaur:
   • Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs. 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67:
2. A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

Forms

Coordinates

bong · hash pipe · hashpipe · moof · bucket bong

Deriveds

hookah dive compressor · hookah diving · hookah dive pump · hookah-burdar · hookah pump · hookah air compressor · hookah compressor · hookah dive · hookah air pump

Hypernyms

water pipe · paraphernalia · pipe

Synonyms

shisha · hubbly bubbly · hubble-bubble · narghile

Translations (100)

hi हुक्का (pipe) · pt xixa (pipe) · pl nargile (pipe) · et vesipiip (pipe) · hy գլգլակ (pipe) · kaa qor-qor (pipe) · uk калья́н (pipe) · es shisha (pipe) · pl szisza (pipe) · pt arguile (pipe) · hu vízipipa (pipe) · fa-ira قَلْیان (pipe) · hy ղալյան (pipe) · fr narguilé (pipe) · az hoqqa (pipe) · ja シーシャ (pipe) · ur حُقَّہ (pipe) · nn vasspipe (pipe) · hi हुक़्क़ा (pipe) · fi hooka (pipe) · ko 물담배 (pipe) · fa-ira غَلْیان (pipe) · is vatnspípa (pipe) · ru калья́н (pipe) · sd حقو (pipe) · ms gudu-gudu (pipe) · vi shisha (pipe) · eo nargileo (pipe) · rhg úkka (pipe) · ko 수연통 (pipe) · de Schischa (pipe) · hy հուքա (pipe) · gu હૂકાહ (pipe) · arz شيشة (pipe) · pl fajka wodna (pipe) · ja 水タバコ (pipe) · ajp أَرْجيلَة (pipe) · uz chilim (pipe) · sv vattenpipa (pipe) · cmn 水煙筒 /水烟筒 (pipe) · bg наргиле́ (pipe) · he נַרְגִּילָה (pipe) · cmn 水煙 /水烟 (pipe) · ar نَارْجِيلَة (pipe) · eo akvopipo (pipe) · ota نارگیله (pipe) · fa-ira نارْگیلِه (pipe) · da vandpibe (pipe) · afb شيشة (pipe) · zza nargile (pipe) · pa ਹੁੱਕਾ (pipe) · ar أَرْكِيلَة (pipe) · acw شيشة (pipe) · fr chicha (pipe) · acw أرقيلة (pipe) · tr nargile (pipe) · nds Schischa (pipe) · it narghilè (pipe) · be калья́н (pipe) · ko 후카 (pipe) · sa नारिकेला (pipe) · th มอระกู่ (pipe) · de Wasserpfeife (pipe) · hy շիշա (pipe) · cs vodní dýmka (pipe) · rhg húkka (pipe) · sh nargìla (pipe) · ja 水パイプ (pipe) · mk наргиле (pipe) · hy նարգիլա (pipe) · bn হুক্কা (pipe) · fr houka (pipe) · sl šiša (pipe) · acm نَرْكِيلَة (pipe) · ms hukah (pipe) · de Shisha (pipe) · ro narghilea (pipe) · az qəlyan (pipe) · kk қорқор (pipe) · fi vesipiippu (pipe) · id hokah (pipe) · ja 水煙管 (pipe) · sl vodna pipa (pipe) · fa-ira قَلْیون (pipe) · sk vodná fajka (pipe) · pt narguilé (pipe) · gl narguilé (pipe) · ms syisya (pipe) · nl waterpijp (pipe) · ne हुक़्क़ा (pipe) · es narguile (pipe) · cmn 水煙袋 /水烟袋 (pipe) · nb vannpipe (pipe) · crh nargile (pipe) · sh наргѝла (pipe) · hy ջրամորճ (pipe) · ar شِيشَة (pipe) · sq nargjile (pipe) · el ναργιλές (pipe) · lt kaljanas (pipe)