houka
English edit
Noun edit
houka (plural houkas)
- Alternative spelling of hookah
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /u.ka/
Audio (file)
Noun edit
houka f (plural houkas)
- hookah (pipe)
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- C’est l’Ennui ! — l’œil chargé d’un pleur involontaire, / Il rêve d’échafauds en fumant son houka.
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Further reading edit
- “houka”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.