nargileh

HYPHEN

nar=gi=leh

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nargileh has 1 sense

nargileh(n = noun.artifact) calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe - 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"

is a kind of pipe, tobacco pipe

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CIDE DICTIONARY

nargileh, n. [Per. nārghīl, 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]

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