shisha

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymshookahnarghilenargilehsheeshachichacaleankalianwater pipehubble-bubblehubbly-bubbly

   Broaderpipe

Other forms of shisha

plural

shishas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shisha

What does shisha mean?

shisha means "an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water".

How many syllables are in shisha?

shisha has 2 syllables: shi-sha. The stress falls on "shi".

What is another word for shisha?

Close synonyms include hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, chicha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shisha a common word?

shisha is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.