hookah

noun

hoo·​kah ˈhu̇-kə How to pronounce hookah (audio) ˈhü- How to pronounce hookah (audio)

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The Springfield Police Department is willing to pay cash for clues in a February fatal shooting that happened outside a local bar and hookah lounge. Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 18 Apr. 2024 In 2011, when Ben Amor was a freshman at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, his parents opened a hookah lounge just a five-minute drive from his college. Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024 In November, 10 people were stabbed in the district within 37 hours, and on Dec. 7, five people were hurt in a mass shooting at a hookah lounge in the neighborhood. Richard Harrold, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024 Here, vendors set up stalls to hawk goods and sugary concoctions and friends gathered around hookah pipes. Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hookah 

Word History

Etymology

Arabic ḥuqqa bottle of a water pipe

First Known Use

1763, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hookah was in 1763

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“Hookah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hookah. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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