an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc, consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled
Also called: hubble-bubble, kalian, narghile, water pipe
Word origin
C18: from Arabic huqqah
kalian in American English
(kɑːlˈjɑːn)
noun
a Persian tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water; hookah
Word origin
[1825–35; ‹ Pers qalyān]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cliché, cross section, relativity, spiritualism, torque