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# hookah

noun (a hookah, hookahs)

«hookah» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke passes through water in a jar before being breathed in through a long tube; also called a water pipe or shisha. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#m1)

### In the lessons

In Alice in Wonderland, the blue Caterpillar sits on a mushroom smoking a long hookah and asks Alice «Who are you?». Hookahs come from India, Persia and the Middle East. Health and safety: smoking a hookah is not safe — it is as harmful as smoking cigarettes and it is illegal to sell tobacco to children.

### Examples

- The Caterpillar was quietly smoking a long hookah. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x1)
- «Who are you?» said the Caterpillar, taking the hookah out of its mouth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x2)
- Hookah smoke is harmful to your lungs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x3)
- In the old picture, the man sat with his hookah. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x4)
- Shisha is another name for hookah smoking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x5)
- The Caterpillar's hookah stood on top of the mushroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Sounds like «HOOK-ah». Safety: hookah smoking is not safer than cigarettes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hookah» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hookah» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hookah.html) on Mova free.