▪ Engl
hookah, also
hooka,
1763, via Hindi or Persian or directly from Ar
ḥuqqaẗ ‘small box, pot, jar, vessel’ (through which the smoke is drawn), related to
ḥuqq ‘a hollow place’. Extended in Urdu to the whole apparatus –
EtymOnline, as of 6Jan2021. – For Huehnergard2011,
ḥuqqaẗ is from
ḥaqqa ‘to be true, suitable, fitting’.