KALIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

Example:

a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola

Synonyms:

calean; chicha; hookah; hubble-bubble; hubbly-bubbly; kalian; narghile; nargileh; sheesha; shisha; water pipe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kalian" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)

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