shisha
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- noun
- /ˈʃiːʃə/
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shisha
- Many friends gathered in the garden to enjoy the flavor of fruit-infused shisha.
- smoking shisha
- shisha pipe
I like going out late at night and I can feel how they sat out with their shisha pipes and everything, settling and watching the universe at night.
- I like going out late at night and I can feel how they sat out with their shisha pipes and everything, settling and watching the universe at night.
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Ariel Shisha-Halevy, a Coptic expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, considers it likely to be authentic on the basis of language and grammar.
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( Middle Eastern countries where shisha pipe smoking is part of the culture for God's sake! )
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This is some good guava shisha.
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And can we have more of the Istanbul Black Demon shisha, please?
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I like going out late at night and I can feel how they sat out with their shisha pipes and everything, settling and watching the universe at night.
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Pretty much the first thing we did after arriving was pop into a street-side cafe near our hotel and grab some mint tea and shisha.
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Whether it was the old guys sitting by the fire with their shisha pipes, the vast night sky, or the traditional meal of zarb, it was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
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Ahmed Faroui muses between long draws of a shisha pipe.
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The two hubbies decided to try the shisha water pipe, tobacco sucked through water and flavored with apple... very amusing.
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Ariel Shisha-Halevy, professor of linguistics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, who was asked to examine the authenticity according to the draft of the article, told King via e-mail, "I believe, on the basis of language and grammar, the text is authentic."
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Synonyms
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7.5
A long pipe that cools smoke in water for people to breathe in
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A smoking device where smoke passes through water before you breathe it in
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A pipe with a long tube that cools tobacco smoke through water
A long pipe for smoking tobacco where smoke passes through water before you inhale
A pipe for smoking flavored tobacco through water with a long tube
A water pipe you smoke from that cools the smoke through water
A long pipe with a water bowl that people use to smoke tobacco
A long water pipe for cooling tobacco smoke before you breathe it in
A pipe with a long tube that passes tobacco smoke through water
A water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco through water
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shisha comes from the Persian and Arabic word shīsheh meaning 'glass', because these smoking pipes often have a glass water base. So a shisha is a water pipe that uses a glass container to cool the smoke before you inhale it.