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hook⋅ah

  [hook-uh]
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–noun
a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
Also, hooka.
Also called narghile.

Origin:
1755–65; < Ar ḥuqqah box, vase, pipe for smoking
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hookah 
1763, from Ar. huqqah "small box, vessel" (through which the smoke is drawn), extended in Urdu to the whole apparatus.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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