Origin of Shisha

Many of the various names of the hookah Shisha Pipes are of Indian, Turkish, Uzbek, Persian or Arab origin. “Shisha” is from the Persian word shishe, or “glass”. “Hashishe” is also an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Hookah, Shisha may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, …

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