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means A water pipe used to smoke flavored tobacco (shisha), where the smoke is pulled down through a water-filled base and cooled before you draw it up through a long hose.

from The word comes via Urdu/Hindi 'ḥuqqah' from Arabic 'ḥuqqah,' meaning a small round box, jar, or casket — the name originally pointed to the bulbous water container at the pipe's base, not the smoking itself. The device is believed to have spread from South Asia and the Middle East outward, and English picked up the word (also as 'hooka') during the era of British colonial contact with India, where travelers encountered the pipe as part of elaborate, unhurried social smoking rituals.