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calabash; hookah; chillum; hooka; kalian; water pipe (Arab communities took up the hookah, or water pipe, and smoking became a shared activity typically enjoyed with conversation and coffee. The hookah spread throughout Persia (present-day Iran) and into India, eventually reaching China, Southeast Asia, and many parts of Africa by the end of the 17th century.
britannica.com); nargile (Turkish barabulius); sheesha (barabulius); shisha (barabulius); hookah pipe (Jonnin); narghile (Anglophile); hubble-bubble |