narghile

or nar·gi·le, nar·gi·leh

[ nahr-guh-lee, -ley ]

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

Origin of narghile

1
1830–40; <Turkish nargile<Persian nārgīleh, derivative of nārgīl coconut, from which the bowl was formerly made

Words Nearby narghile

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How to use narghile in a sentence

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

    War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
  • He was squatting on the floor next to an oriental coffee tray poking at a narghile that had gone out.

    The Song of Songs | Hermann Sudermann
  • He is sitting on a cushion, leaning against the wall and smoking his narghile.

    The Syrian Christ | Abraham Mitrie Rihbany
  • 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.

    Tartarin de Tarascon | Alphonse Daudet

British Dictionary definitions for narghile

narghile

nargile or nargileh

/ (ˈnɑːɡɪlɪ, -ˌleɪ) /


noun
  1. another name for hookah

Origin of narghile

1
C19: from French narguilé, from Persian nārgīleh a pipe having a bowl made of coconut shell, from nārgīl coconut

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