Standard Lemma guide

hookah

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈhʊ.kə/
  • General-American: /ˈhu.kə/
  • General-American: /ˈhʊ.kə/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʊkə
  • rhymes with -uːkə
  • homophone: hooker (UK, non-rhotic)

1

noun

Meaning 1

A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: recreational inhalants

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hubble-bubble, hubbly bubbly, narghile, shisha

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: water pipe, pipe, paraphernalia

2

noun

Meaning 2

A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: diving, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, underwater-diving

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pipe, tobacco pipe

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).

Across languages

Translations

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: nargjile — pipe
  • Arabic: شِيشَة (šīša) — pipe
  • Arabic: نَارْجِيلَة (nargīla) — pipe
  • Arabic: أَرْكِيلَة (ʔargīla) — pipe
  • Arabic: شيشة (šīša) — pipe
  • Arabic: شيشة (šīša) — pipe
  • Arabic: شيشة (šīša) — pipe
  • Arabic: أرقيلة (ʔargīla) — pipe
  • Arabic: أَرْجيلَة (ʔargīle) — pipe
  • Armenian: գլգլակ (glglak) — pipe
  • Armenian: ջրամորճ (ǰramorč) — pipe
  • Armenian: նարգիլա (nargila) — pipe
  • Armenian: հուքա (hukʻa) — pipe
  • Armenian: ղալյան (ġalyan) — pipe
  • Armenian: շիշա (šiša) — pipe
  • Azerbaijani: qəlyan — pipe
  • Azerbaijani: hoqqa — pipe
  • Belarusian: калья́н (kalʹján) — pipe
  • Bengali: হুক্কা (hukka) — pipe
  • Bulgarian: наргиле́ (nargilé) — pipe
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水煙 /水烟 (shuǐyān) — pipe
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水煙筒 /水烟筒 (shuǐyāntǒng) — pipe
  • Chinese Mandarin: 水煙袋 /水烟袋 (shuǐyāndài) — pipe
  • Crimean Tatar: nargile — pipe
  • Czech: vodní dýmka — pipe
  • Danish: vandpibe — pipe
  • Dutch: waterpijp — pipe
  • Esperanto: akvopipo — pipe
  • Esperanto: nargileo — pipe
  • Estonian: vesipiip — pipe
  • Finnish: vesipiippu — pipe
  • Finnish: hooka — pipe
  • French: houka — pipe
  • French: narguilé — pipe
  • French: chicha — pipe
  • Galician: narguilé — pipe
  • German: Wasserpfeife — pipe
  • German: Schischa — pipe
  • German: Shisha — pipe
  • Greek: ναργιλές (nargilés) — pipe
  • Gujarati: હૂકાહ (hūkāh) — pipe
  • Hebrew: נַרְגִּילָה (nargíla) — pipe
  • Hindi: हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) — pipe
  • Hindi: हुक्का (hukkā) — pipe
  • Hungarian: vízipipa — pipe
  • Icelandic: vatnspípa — pipe
  • Indonesian: hokah — pipe
  • Italian: narghilè — pipe
  • Japanese: 水タバコ (mizu-tabako) — pipe
  • Japanese: 水煙管 (mizu-giseru) — pipe
  • Japanese: 水パイプ (mizu-paipu) — pipe
  • Japanese: シーシャ (shiisha) — pipe
  • Karakalpak: qor-qor — pipe
  • Kazakh: қорқор (qorqor) — pipe
  • Korean: 수연통 (suyeontong) — pipe
  • Korean: 물담배 (muldambae) — pipe
  • Korean: 후카 (huka) — pipe
  • Lithuanian: kaljanas — pipe
  • Low German: Schischa — pipe
  • Macedonian: наргиле (nargile) — pipe
  • Malay: syisya — pipe
  • Malay: gudu-gudu — pipe
  • Malay: hukah — pipe
  • Nepali: हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) — pipe
  • Norwegian Bokmål: vannpipe — pipe
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vasspipe — pipe
  • Iranian Persian: قَلْیان (ġalyân) — pipe
  • Iranian Persian: غَلْیان (ġalyân) — pipe
  • Iranian Persian: قَلْیون (ġalyun) — pipe
  • Iranian Persian: نارْگیلِه (nârgile) — pipe
  • Polish: nargile — pipe
  • Polish: fajka wodna — pipe
  • Polish: szisza — pipe
  • Portuguese: narguilé — pipe
  • Portuguese: xixa — pipe
  • Portuguese: arguile — pipe
  • Punjabi: ਹੁੱਕਾ (hukkā) — pipe
  • Rohingya: húkka — pipe
  • Rohingya: úkka — pipe
  • Romanian: narghilea — pipe
  • Russian: калья́н (kalʹján) — pipe
  • Sanskrit: नारिकेला (nārikelā) — pipe
  • Serbo-Croatian: наргѝла — pipe
  • Serbo-Croatian: nargìla — pipe
  • Sindhi: حقو (ḥqo) — pipe
  • Slovak: vodná fajka — pipe
  • Slovene: vodna pipa — pipe
  • Slovene: šiša — pipe
  • Spanish: narguile — pipe
  • Spanish: shisha — pipe
  • Swedish: vattenpipa — pipe
  • Thai: มอระกู่ (mɔɔ-rá-gùu) — pipe
  • Turkish: nargile — pipe
  • Ottoman Turkish: نارگیله (nargile) — pipe
  • Ukrainian: калья́н (kalʹján) — pipe
  • Urdu: حُقَّہ (huqqa) — pipe
  • Uzbek: chilim — pipe
  • Vietnamese: shisha — pipe
  • Zazaki: nargile — pipe