shisha
noun (also sheesha) uk/ˈʃiː.ʃə/ us/ˈʃiː.ʃə/
[ C ] plural shisha（阿拉伯）水烟
the Arabic name for a type of pipe for burning tobacco, in which smoke passes through a container of water before it is breathed in
The terrace is one of the most pleasant places in the city to smoke a shisha, or waterpipe. 这个露台是城里最惬意的地方之一，可以抽“shisha”，也就是水烟。
Synonym: hookah
[ U ]（阿拉伯）水烟烟丝
tobacco, usually mixed with herbs or flavourings, smoked using a shisha pipe
We don't drink. I don't smoke cigarettes. But we smoke shisha, it's part of our culture. 我们不喝酒。我不抽烟。但我们抽水烟，这是我们文化的一部分。
There are plenty of places to go for shisha and coffee. 有很多地方可以去抽水烟、喝咖啡。
- More examples
- They went into an Egyptian-style coffeehouse that served Turkish water pipes, called shisha.
- Many of their Middle Eastern customers enjoy the apple or mango-scented tobacco in a shisha for $12 to $20, the restaurateurs said.
- The craze for smoking shisha has spread to the west.
- He bought a hookah a year ago and tried smoking shisha at home with friends.
- The tobacco smoked in a hookah, called shisha, often is flavoured and sweetened with molasses or honey.
- We smoke apple-flavoured sheesha and talk.
- They argue that second-hand shisha smoke is only about 20 percent tobacco.