hookah

noun

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

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If Ramy Youssef’s other TV shows, Ramy and Mo, were meant to evoke a friendly, self-deprecating Muslim man offering non-brown viewers a pull on the hookah, Youssef’s latest, #1 Happy Family USA, throws that glass pipe and its symbolic desire for cross-cultural friendship into a bonfire. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025 Dončić drinks beer and smokes hookah, neither of which is atypical for a 25-year-old. C. Clark, M. Vorkunov and F. Katz, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025 The mesmerizing movement of men tossing sticks of fire on the sand and people pulsing to the beat in a haze of hookah smoke felt like a scene plucked straight from the show. Anna Haines, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025 Ava is a woman who casually dated Andre Iguodala, appeared on the cover of Inner City Doomsday Preppers Magazine, and has a hookah flavor named in her honor. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2025 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 2 Jul. 2025.

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