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Mughal emperor Jahangir's jade hookah, National Museum, New Delhi, India. Karim Khan of Persia seated in his royal court in Shiraz, using a Qaelyan (1755).. In the Indian subcontinent, the Hindustani word huqqa (Devanagari: हुक़्क़ा, Nastaleeq: حقّہ) is used and is the origin of the English word "hookah".
Hookah Hookah are a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) water pipe for smoking. Originally from India, the hookah was a symbol of pride and honor for the landlords, kings and other such high class people. Now, the hookah has gained immense popularity, especially in the Middle East. A hookah operates by water filtration and indirect heat.
A hookah lounge (also called a shisha bar or den, especially in Britain and parts of Canada, or a hookah bar) is an establishment where patrons share shisha (flavoured tobacco) from a communal hookah or from one placed at each table or a bar.
Pituri, a nicotine-containing substance traditionally made from Australian tobacco plants, used by Indigenous Australians for chewing and placed between the lower or upper lip and gums. Snus is a steam-pasteurized moist powdered tobacco product that is not fermented and induces minimal salivation.
A hookah and a variety of muʽassel packages are on display in a Harvard Square store window in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Hookah was popular in the 1960s and 1970s, although in this era they used open flames rather than coals. [14] In recent years hookah use has increased dramatically in the United States and Canada. [15]
One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, "a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant".
A hookah is an instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco or sometimes cannabis or opium. Hookah may also refer to: "Hookah" (Tyga song), 2014 "Hookah" (Bad Gyal song), 2019; A basic form of surface-supplied diving
The Australian Oxford Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as AOD, is a dictionary of Australian English published by Oxford University Press. [1]The AOD combines elements of the previous Oxford publication, The Australian National Dictionary (sometimes abbreviated as AND), which was a comprehensive, historically based record of 10,000 words and phrases representing Australia's contribution to ...