Arghile from Bethany beyond the river Jordan

A hookah (Arabic: حقة; Hindustani: हुक़्क़ा / حقّہ) is a multi-stemmed, often glass-based water pipe device for smoking, originating from India. A hookah operates by water-filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking many substances, such as herbal fruits and tobacco. Depending on locality, hookahs are known as other names, such as a shisha/sheesha, water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh, argeela/arghileh, okka, kalyan, or ghelyoon/ghalyan.

Narghile is the name most commonly used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic.

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