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)
- hookah (pipe)
- Synonyms: cachimba, hookah, shisha, kalyan, arguile, argila, pipa de agua
Further reading
- “narguile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
narguile on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es