Used in the Middle East and North Africa. In Egypt this is a name for a hookah or the actual flavored tobacco inside it. Flavors can include apple cinnamon, mint, etc. Smoking shisha once is equal to smoking 30 cigarettes. Very common, mostly done by men in community settings like cafes or gathering places.
by Em123Sudd March 15, 2009
It’s a hookah, but arabs find it disrespectful and very “white” of someone to refer to a shisha as hookah. So if you say hookah fucking get your white ass out of here and give us the shisha we created back cause you don’t deserve it.
Arab1: Did you hear what chad said?
Arab2: What did he say?
Arab1: He asked if I wanted to smoke hookah with him..
Arab2: Damn that guy is white, it a mother fucking shisha
Non Arab: Yo wanna go smoke some hookah?
Arab: Get yo white ass out of here
Arab: ITS A SHISHA
Arab2: What did he say?
Arab1: He asked if I wanted to smoke hookah with him..
Arab2: Damn that guy is white, it a mother fucking shisha
Non Arab: Yo wanna go smoke some hookah?
Arab: Get yo white ass out of here
Arab: ITS A SHISHA
by Your regular arab hoe September 24, 2018
by Dude of Life July 11, 2008
by Bigrattus June 12, 2003
A synonym for hookah, water pipe, or narghile. The word comes from the Persian word for glass. The term “shisha” is primarily used for water pipes in Egypt. Misinformed Westerners tend to refer to the tobacco smoked from a water pipe as "shisha". This is due to slang use in the Middle East, where it is acceptable to request a “flavored shisha” which means a hookah with flavored tobacco. The incorrect inference that “shisha” refers to the flavored tobacco spread into the vernacular and is primarily used by those that have only experienced this particular aspect of Middle Eastern culture in its cheaper, commercialized form in the West.
"I was just at the market and I bargained for a great deal on a three-hosed shisha"
"What flavors of malah do you have for your shisha?"
"What flavors of malah do you have for your shisha?"
by BillyBuckets April 21, 2006
a decently tasting smoking pot that is supposedly behind most of the world's genocides however argela uses shisha as a scapegoat
by Weiled El Jieradet May 06, 2005
by truelovexx66 June 03, 2017