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< Narew
naris >
nar·ghi·le
also
nar·gi·leh
(när
g
-l
)
KEY
NOUN:
See
hookah
.
ETYMOLOGY:
French
narghilé
, obsolete variant of
narguilé
, from Persian
n
rg
leh
, from
n
rg
l
,
coconut (from which the receptacle was made)
, from Sanskrit
n
rikela
, n
likera
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