Definitions for narghiles

narghiles nar·ghi·le

Spelling: [nahr-guh-lee, -ley]
IPA: /ˈnɑr gə li, -ˌleɪ/

Narghiles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 759 anagrams from letters in narghiles (aeghilnrs).

Definitions for narghiles

noun

  1. a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe in which the smoke is drawn through water before reaching the lips; hookah.

Origin of narghiles

1830-40; Turkish nargile Persian nārgīleh, derivative of nārgīl coconut, from which the bowl was formerly made

Examples for narghiles

On the carpet was a narghile of silver and several perfume-burners.

His meal over, the young Turk stretches himself on the floor in true Eastern style, and begins carelessly to smoke a narghile.

He relapsed into thought, and for some time the silence was only broken by the bubbling of the water in the narghile.

The young wife was looking at her husband who was smoking a narghile, the only form of pipe she would have suffered in that room.

He is sitting on a cushion, leaning against the wall and smoking his narghile.

I used to sit in one of the coffee-houses and drink coffee or tea and smoke the long-stemmed water-pipe, the narghile.

narghile, nr′gi-le, n. an Eastern tobacco-pipe, in which the smoke is passed through water.

The amber mouthpiece of a narghile was between her lips and she was enveloped in a cloud of pale smoke.

When we found him he was sitting on a divan of velvet, smoking his narghile.

He was squatting on the floor next to an oriental coffee tray poking at a narghile that had gone out.

Word Value for narghiles
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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