narghile

[ nahr-guh-lee, -ley ]

/ ˈnɑr gə li, -ˌleɪ /

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

Origin of narghile

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

narcotrafficking, nard, nardoo, nares, narew, narghile, narial, naris, nark, narky, narmada

His meal over, the young Turk stretches himself on the floor in true Eastern style, and begins carelessly to smoke a narghile.

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter |Henry Murger
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
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
He is sitting on a cushion, leaning against the wall and smoking his narghile.

The Syrian Christ |Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

When we found him he was sitting on a divan of velvet, smoking his narghile.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. |Various

narghile

/ (ˈnɑːɡɪlɪ, -ˌleɪ) /

another name for hookah

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