2006-11-28 17:37:43 · 6 answers · asked by mixxedlove325 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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A hookah (Urdu/Arabic: حقہ, Hindi: हुक़ा), also known by many other names, is a multi-stemmed, often times glass based water pipe device for smoking tobacco, originating from India. From India, it was made popular as the form we now see it in today in Turkey. A hookah operates by water-filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking many substances, such as herbal fruits, tobacco, or cannabis.
2006-11-28 17:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Basically it's a big bong with hoses attached to smoke tobacco/opium/hash. They come from the Middle East and Orient. It's becoming more popular here in the US with so many vets returning from Iraq and bringing this method of smoking.
If you've ever seen the movie Half Baked, the bong Wesley Pipes is a hookah.
2006-11-29 01:44:42 · answer #2 · answered by PhotogInSC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hookah is a shisha...
origin: middle-east
The hookah is a water pipe with tubes that stands a little less than three feet tall. And it's used for smoking flavored tobacco. As different as it might seen, it's part of everyday life in the Middle East.
"You can go to a middle-eastern restaurant after lunch,you can order a hookah."
Depending on locality, hookahs are known variously as a water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/narg... argeela/arghileh, shisha/sheesha, okka, kalyan, ghelyoon or ghalyan, or hubble-bubble/hubbly-bubbly or Hart's Magic Stick. Many of these names are of Indian, Turkish, Uzbek, Persian or Arab origin. "Narghile" is from the Persian word nÄrgil, or "coconut", and in Sanksrit nÄrikera, since the original nargile came from India and was made out of coconut shells[1]. "Shisha" is from the Persian word shishe (literally translated as "glass" and not bottle). "Hashishe" is also an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. "Hookah" itself may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, pot, or jar. Both names refer to the original methods of constructing the smoke/water chamber part of the hookah
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2006-11-29 01:44:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jendralus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a hooka is a water bong which you use for smoking flavored tobacco (does not have nothing to do with weed or any kind of drugs) its orginally arabic/turkish . and its still VERY commen habbit in many countries in the east . other names for it would be "sheeshah" or "argeelah" . only one person can smoke of a hooka its alittle bit different than a regular water bong.
2006-11-29 01:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by B0oGeYMaN 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a bong with a whole bunch of tubes coming out of it.
2006-11-29 01:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by PegBundyWannabe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a water pipe, otherwise known as a bong.
2006-11-29 01:40:36 · answer #6 · answered by finaldx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋