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?"
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.
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 assout of here Arab: ITS A SHISHA
A broke hun who’s usually dresses less to attract alcohol buyers and just sits at the table holding a Shisha pipe. Shisha girls usually have heavy make up and somehow managed to buy an iPhone.