Word Study
hookah
CIDE DICTIONARY
hookah, n. [Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco.].
A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe . The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hookah, n. an oriental tobacco-pipe with a long tube passing through water for cooling the smoke as it is drawn through.
Etymology
Urdu f. Arab. hukkah casket
THESAURUS
hookah
Missouri meerschaum, briar, briar pipe, calean, calumet, churchwarden, clay, corncob, corncob pipe, hubble-bubble, meerschaum, nargileh, peace pipe, pipe, pipe cleaner, pipe rack, tobacco pipe, tobacco pouch, water pipeFor further exploring for "hookah" in Webster Dictionary Online