HOOKAH, a pipe with a long flexible tube attached to a large bowl containing water, often scented, and resting upon its own base. The smoke of the tobacco passes through the water in the bowl, and is thus cooled. The narghile of India is in principle the same as the hookah; the word is derived from nargil, the coconut tree, as the water was at first placed in a coconut. The receptacle is now often made of porcelain, glass or metal. This pipe is common in India, Egypt and the East generally.