nargileh
- noun
- /nɑrˈɡiːlə/
- UK
:
narguile
- After dinner, we enjoyed a relaxing evening smoking nargileh in the garden.
Examples
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He prepared the nargileh with aromatic tobacco, filling the room with a sweet scent.
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At the café, many customers gather to share stories while passing around a nargileh.
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"Dreams are stronger than people," Taleb tells himself, stopping at a stand for a suck of nargileh smoke.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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7.5
A long pipe that cools smoke in water for people to breathe in
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9.6
A water pipe for smoking tobacco that cools smoke through water
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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 long water pipe for cooling tobacco smoke before you breathe it in
A long pipe with a water bowl that people use to smoke tobacco
A water pipe you smoke from that cools the smoke through water
A water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco through water
A pipe with a long tube that passes tobacco smoke through water
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nargileh comes from the Persian word nārgīleh, which means 'coconut'. Early tobacco water pipes often used a coconut shell as the bowl, so the name came to mean the whole water pipe or hookah, and that's why nargileh today refers to the long tobacco pipe whose smoke passes through water.