How to pronounce “hookah” in English

It was her job to clean and polish Dadu's hookah, the three-foot-high water pipe with a brass base.

Once Dadu had finished his lunch and smoked his hookah and retreated to his room for his afternoon nap, the whole household would come to a sleepy, slow midday rest.

She would take in the loud burble of air bubbles in the brass water base of the hookah and then languidly open her eyes and let out the smoke,

I can almost imagine her sitting there and-- Smoking the hookah.

But I could make out a series of small tables, each replete with a hookah and a bong.

Looking around the house and making sure nobody was close by, she would sit next to the hookah in Dadu's chair, a comfortable wicker chair nobody