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单词 argileh
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argilehn.

Brit. /ɑːˈɡiːleɪ/, U.S. /ɑrˈɡileɪ/
Forms: 1700s argile, 1800s argilé, 1900s– arghileh, 1900s– argileh, 1900s– arguileh.
Origin: A borrowing from Arabic. Perhaps also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Arabic argīleh , nārajīla ; narghile n..
Etymology: < colloquial Arabic argīleh, alteration of Arabic nārajīla (see narghile n.). Compare Turkish nargile . In quot. 1758 perhaps a variant (with metanalysis: see N n.) of narghile n.
Chiefly in Syria and neighbouring Arabic-speaking countries: = narghile n.
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1758 in E. Ives Voy. India (1773) 271 An Argile, or smoking tube, and coffee, were..brought to us.
1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy xii. 185 We were always served with coffee, sherbet, and argilé.
1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 May n10 The tobacco sits in a big bowl at the crown of a nearly three-foot tall arguileh.
2001 Chicago Tribune 27 Aug. i. 6/6 Idle merchants hang out at Abu Amjad's coffeehouse, smoking the argileh.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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