different between hookah vs hooah

English

Alternative forms

• hooka, hukka, hukkah, huqqa, huqqah

Etymology

From Hindi ????????? (huqq?) and Urdu ???? (huqq?), in turn, derived from Arabic ??????? (?uqqa, “pot, jar”), from ????? (?uqq, “cavity, hollow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.k?/
  • Homophone: hooker (non-rhotic accents)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hu.k?/
• Hyphenation: hook?ah

Noun

hookah (plural hookahs)

1. A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

   Synonyms: waterpipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly bubbly, narghile, shisha

   • 1831, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction:

     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.

   • 1954, Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur^[1], chapter 18:

     The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.

Translations

Further reading

• hookah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?hu.??/

Interjection

hooah

1. (US, military) The official yell of the US Army.

   Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?

   Soldiers: Hooah!

See also

• ooh-rah, oorah
• hooyah

Anagrams

• hoo-ha