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# hookah

«hookah» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hookah, hookahs)

### meaning for a pupil

A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke passes through water in a jar before being breathed in through a long tube; also called a water pipe or shisha. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In Alice in Wonderland, the blue Caterpillar sits on a mushroom smoking a long hookah and asks Alice «Who are you?». Hookahs come from India, Persia and the Middle East. Health and safety: smoking a hookah is not safe — it is as harmful as smoking cigarettes and it is illegal to sell tobacco to children.

### examples

- The Caterpillar was quietly smoking a long hookah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x1)
- «Who are you?» said the Caterpillar, taking the hookah out of its mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x2)
- Hookah smoke is harmful to your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x3)
- In the old picture, the man sat with his hookah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x4)
- Shisha is another name for hookah smoking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x5)
- The Caterpillar's hookah stood on top of the mushroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/#x6)

### note

Countable. Sounds like «HOOK-ah». Safety: hookah smoking is not safer than cigarettes.

### In the corpora

- [Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hookah» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hookah/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.