narghile

/ˈnɑɹɡɪliː/

Etymology

From French narghilé, from Turkish nargile, from Persian نارگیله (nârgile) from نارگیل (nârgil, “a coconut”), which was formerly used to construct the bowl, likely ultimately from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela, “a coconut”), from a Dravidian language.

narghile means A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

Why this word is great

NARGHILE — [Noun] A large Oriental tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it. Its etymology coils from French narghilé, from Turkish nargile, from Persian نارگیله (nārgile), from نارگیل (nārgil, "coconut"), as the bowl was formerly made from a coconut shell, likely ultimately from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela, "coconut"), from a Dravidian source. Unlike "hookah," which conjures an ornate, multi-hosed apparatus for social ceremony, or the archaic "calean" fossilized in travelogues, the narghile specifies the elemental, intimate archetype. It is the ambered gurgle of water in a glass vase, the dim red pulse of the coal on damp tobacco, and the solitary, meditative draw that pulls a universe of fragrant smoke through that liquid sigh—a quiet machinery for the measured dissolution of an hour, a small, deliberate ritual against the hurry of time.

noun

A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.“He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.”