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shisha

UK/ˈʃiːʃə/ uncommon

noun

1.

an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

  • “a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola”
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Origin

Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic شيشة (šīša), from Ottoman Turkish شیشه şişe, from Classical Persian شیشه (šīša, “glass, mirror”).

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