Wiktionary
n. 1 An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah. 2 The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract. 3 (context textiles English) a type of embroidery which attaches small pieces of reflective metal to fabric
WordNet
n. an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly]
Wikipedia
Shisheh or Abhla Bharat embroidery (Shisheh Persian شيشه, Abhala Bharat Hindi: अाभला भरत, Abhla Bharat Gujarati: આભલા ભરત), or mirror-work, is a type of embroidery which attaches small pieces of mirrors reflect metal to fabric. Mirror embroidery is spread throughout Asia, and today can be found in the traditional embroidery of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Indonesia.
Shisha or sheesha may refer to:
- Hookah, a waterpipe
- Mu‘assel, or shisha tobacco, the molasses-based tobacco concoction smoked in a hookah
- Hookah lounge, or shisha bar, an establishment where patrons share shisha
- Sheesha (1986 film), a 1986 Hindi-language Indian film
- Sheesha (2005 film), a 2005 Hindi film
- Shisha (embroidery), embroidery incorporating small mirrors
- Shisha (song), a 2013 song by Massari featuring French Montana
- Shisha, a person mentioned in the Bible; see List of minor biblical figures, L–Z
"Shisha" is a single by Lebanese Canadian R&B/Pop singer Massari off his yet to be released third album. The song was released on May 21, 2013 and features vocals from American rapper French Montana. The song peaked at number 37 on the Canadian Hot 100.
Usage examples of "shisha".
Now when the legal period of mourning was over, there came to Raishu, from the Tokoyo palace, a shisha, or royal messenger.
Kangri had promised Shisha that he would take his evening meal with her family tonight, and he knew he had little time before he was expected there.
If Shisha had one complaint about the man she was soon to marry, that would have been it.
What was worse, Shache had a young wife whom he had wed after his first wife had died, and she and Shisha were close.