. "A hookah (Persian: \u0642\u0644\u06CC\u0627\u0646 [qaly\u0101n]; Hindustani: \u0939\u0941\u0915\u093C\u094D\u0915\u093C\u093E (Devanagari) \u062D\u0642\u0651\u06C1 (Nastaleeq)[hukk\u0101], \u1E25uqqah, Huki\u0107\u2014also known as a waterpipe, narghile, arghila, qaly\u0101n, shisha, or by other names) is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco called shisha in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin\u2014often glass-based\u2014before inhalation."@en . . .