narghile

or nar·gi·le, nar·gi·leh

[ nahr-guh-lee, -ley ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.

narghile

/ ˈnɑːɡɪlɪ; -ˌleɪ /

1830–40; < Turkish nargile < Persian nārgīleh, derivative of nārgīl coconut, from which the bowl was formerly made

C19: from French narguilé, from Persian nārgīleh a pipe having a bowl made of coconut shell, from nārgīl coconut

I used to sit in one of the coffee-houses and drink coffee or tea and smoke the long-stemmed water-pipe, the narghile.

He was squatting on the floor next to an oriental coffee tray poking at a narghile that had gone out.

He is sitting on a cushion, leaning against the wall and smoking his narghile.

His meal over, the young Turk stretches himself on the floor in true Eastern style, and begins carelessly to smoke a narghile.

The amber mouthpiece of a narghile was between her lips and she was enveloped in a cloud of pale smoke.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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