hookah

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhʊ.kə/    美 /ˈhu.kə/|/ˈhʊ.kə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
    — In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
  2. A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.

词形变化

hookahs plural hooka alternative hooker alternative houka alternative hukka alternative hukkah alternative huqqa alternative huqqah alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
hookah air compressor hookah air pump hookah-burdar hookah compressor hookah dive hookah dive compressor hookah dive pump hookah diving hookah pump

词源

Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
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