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Definition of Shisha
1. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Pipe, Tobacco Pipe
Definition of Shisha
1. Noun. An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah. ¹
2. Noun. The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shisha
Literary usage of Shisha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Khassi Language: For the Use of Schools, Native Students by H. Roberts (1891)
"Emphasis is expressed by means of such adverbs as shisha [Beng. jj^j W*! ...
Nga'm wit shisha, lit., I love not INDEED=! do not love. PAST. ..."
2. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"The shisha (hooka) of Arabia, 296 Syrian tobacco generally used in Al-Madinah,
298 Its soothing influence, ii, 63 Waterpipes, 63 Salary of a pipe-bearer, ..."
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