narguile

See also: narguilé

Spanish

Alternative forms

• narghile, narguilé

Etymology

Borrowed from French narguilé, from Turkish nargile, from Persian نارگیله (nârgile), from Persian نارگیل (nârgil, “coconut”), from Middle Persian anārgēl, from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela, “coconut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɾˈɡile/ [naɾˈɣ̞i.le]
• Rhymes: -ile
• Syllabification: nar‧gui‧le

Noun

narguile m (plural narguiles)

1. hookah (pipe)

   Synonyms: cachimba, hookah, shisha, kalyan, arguile, argila, pipa de agua

Further reading

• “narguile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• narguile on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es