shisha

shi·sha ¹

S5378450 (shē′shə)n.1. See hookah.2. Flavored tobacco smoked in a hookah, usually mixed with molasses or honey and often fruit pulp or dried fruits.

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[Arabic šīša, glass bottle of a hookah, hookah, ultimately (probably partly via Turkish şişe, bottle) from Persian šīša, bottle, glass, from Middle Persian šīšag, bottle, flask, probably of Aramaic origin; akin to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 'ăšîšā, jug, and Biblical Hebrew šayiš, alabaster, marble, both ultimately from Egyptian šś, alabaster.]

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shisha²

shi·sha ²

S5378460 (shē′shə)n. The South Asian handicraft of embroidering fabric with small mirrors.

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[Hindi śīśā and Urdu šīšā, glass, mirror, from Persian šīša; see shisa¹.]

shisha

(ˈʃiːʃə) or

sheesha

n (Recreational Drugs) another name for hookah[C21: from Persian shishe a bottle]

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Noun

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shisha - 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"calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, water pipepipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco