Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nargile

Nargile , noun

[Per. nārghīl, prop., a cocoanut; prob. so called because first made of a cocoanut.]

An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water. Also called hoookah and water pipe. Functionally similar to the hubble-bubble, a simplified form.

Also: Nargileh