shisha

English - Turkish

Definition of shisha in English Turkish dictionary

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English - English

Definition of shisha in English English dictionary

An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah

The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract

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"

Etymology

() From Egyptian Arabic شيشة (šīša) Turkish şişe Persian شیشه (šīša) ‘glass’.