what is hookah or hooka?

Answer 1

A hookah (Arabic: حقہ) is a multi-stemmed, often glass-based water pipe device for smoking, 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. Depending on locality, hookahs are known as other names, such as a water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh, argeela/arghileh, shisha/sheesha, okka, kalyan,ghelyoon, ghalyan or hubbly bubbly. Many of these names are of Arab, Somalian, Indian, Ethiopian, Turkish, Uzbek, or Persian origin. Narghile (نارگيله) is from the Persian word nārgil (نارگیل) or "coconut", and in Sanskrit nārikela (नारीकेल) since the original nargile came from India and was made out of coconut shells.[1] Shisha (شيشة) is from the Persian word shishe (شیشه, literally translated as glass and not bottle). Hashish (حشيش) is an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Another source states, "In early Arabic texts, the term hashish referred not only to cannabis resin but also to the dried leaves or flower heads and sweetmeats made with them".[2] Hookah (Arabic حقة, Hindustani हुक़ा حقہ) 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.

Narghile is the name most commonly used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Palestinian Territories, Israel and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic. Shisha is more commonly seen in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. In Iran it is called ghalyoun or ghalyan (قليان) and in Pakistan and India it is referred to as huqqa. The archaic form of this latter name, hookah is most commonly used in English for historical reasons, as it was in India that large numbers of English-speakers first sampled the effects of the water pipe. William Hickey wrote in his Memoirs that shortly after his arrival in Calcutta in 1775:

The most highly-dressed and splendid hookah was prepared for me. I tried it, but did not like it. As after several trials I still found it disagreeable, I with much gravity requested to know whether it was indispensably necessary that I should become a smoker, which was answered with equal gravity, 'Undoubtedly it is, for you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Here everybody uses a hookah, and it is impossible to get on without'.....[I] have frequently heard men declare they would much rather be deprived of their dinner than their hookah.

Answer 2

A common instrument for smoking any number of things. It involves passing the smoke through water (or ice) to aid in cooling and filtration. The hookah is more common in Eastern countries.

The caterpillar in the Alice In Wonderland story is perhaps the most well known image that crosses cultural lines, due to the popularity of the Disney film.

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Answer 3

It's a pipe for smoking. It involves a tube to smoke through and water. It's from the Middle East mostly. (The caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland smokes one.)

Answer 4

a hooker is a prostitute.the hooka hooka is a dance which was popularized in the black community by a popular song

Answer 5

It's a pipe that is designed with a long tube passing through an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through. they come in yummy flavors and stuff.

Answer 6

Pipe!

Answer 7

hookah hookah? twice as nice...

Answer 8

it is an item that uses water and you use it to smoke

Answer 9

do you mean hooker ?