Shisha vs. Hookah

Shishanoun

(countable) An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah.

Shishanoun

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

Shishanoun

(textiles) A type of embroidery with small pieces of reflective metal attached to the fabric.

Shishanoun

an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water;

Shishanoun

(in Egypt and other Arabic-speaking countries) a hookah.

Shishanoun

tobacco for smoking in a hookah, especially when mixed with flavourings such as mint.

Hookahnoun

A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

Hookahnoun

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.

Hookahnoun

an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water;

Hookahnoun

an oriental tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube which draws the smoke through water contained in a bowl.

Hookah

A hookah (Hindustani: حقّہ (Nastaleeq), हुक़्क़ा (Devanagari), IPA: [ˈɦʊqːa]; also see other names), or shisha, is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco (often Mu‘assel), or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and in the past opium. The smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation.The health risks of smoking through a hookah include exposure to toxic chemicals that are not filtered out by the water and risk of infectious disease when hookahs are shared.The hookah or waterpipe was invented by Abu’l-Fath Gilani, a Persian physician of Akbar, in the Indian city of Fatehpur Sikri during Mughal India; the hookah spread from the Indian subcontinent to Persia first, where the mechanism was modified to its current shape, and then to the Near East.