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Now Open! Relux Hookah Lounge is located in Albuquerque's downtown district! 109 4th st nw alb nm 87102 4th and central! OUR HOURS OF OPERATION ARE **"EVENING HOURS"** MONDAY-THURSDAY 8PM TO 12AM FRIDAY&SATURDAY 8PM TO 3AM ***WE HAVE A WEBSITE UP AND GOING*** IT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION BUT UP. *CHECK IT OUT* reluxhookahlounge.com

If you have never been to a hookah lounge before, or have no idea what a hookah or what shisha is, please feel free to read below.

What is a Hookah? A hookah is a multi-stemmed, often glass-based water pipe device for smoking, originating from India. It was made popular as the form we now see it in today in Turkey. A hookah operates by water-filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking many substances, such as herbal fruits, tobacco, or cannabis. Depending on locality, hookahs are known as other names, such as a water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh, argeela/arghileh, shisha/sheesha, okka, kalyan, or ghelyoon or ghalyan. Many of these names are of Arab, Somalian, Indian, Ethiopian, Turkish, Uzbek, or Persian origin. Narghile is from the Persian word nargil or "coconut", and in Sanskrit narikela since the original nargile came from India and was made out of coconut shells. Shisha is from the Persian word shishe (literally translated as glass and not bottle). Hashish is an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Another source states, "In early Arabic texts, the term hashish referred not only to cannabis resin but also to the dried leaves or flower heads and sweetmeats made with them". Hookah itself may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, pot, or jar. Both names refer to the original methods of constructing the smoke/water chamber part of the hookah.

Narghile is the name most commonly used in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Palestinian Territories, Israel and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic. Shisha is more commonly seen in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. In Iran it is called ghalyoun or ghalyan and in Pakistan and India it is referred to as huqqa. The archaic form of this latter name, hookah is most commonly used in English for historical reasons, as it was in India that large numbers of English-speakers first sampled the effects of the water pipe. William Hickey wrote in his Memoirs that shortly after his arrival in Calcutta in 1775:

"The most highly-dressed and splendid hookah was prepared for me. I tried it, but did not like it. As after several trials I still found it disagreeable, I with much gravity requested to know whether it was indispensably necessary that I should become a smoker, which was answered with equal gravity, 'Undoubtedly it is, for you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Here everybody uses a hookah, and it is impossible to get on without'.....[I] have frequently heard men declare they would much rather be deprived of their dinner than their hookah."

What is shisha? Shisha is the common term used in hookah lounges and elsewhere for the flavored tobacco which is smoked in a hookah or nargile. Less frequently, this substance is called tobamel or maassel. .. ..
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