Which water pipe for smoking flavoured tobacco is known as 'shisha' in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and by the Arabic variant 'شيشة' across Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain and the wider Arabian Peninsula?

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hookah. The hookah, thought to have originated in Mughal India or Persia in the 16th century, uses water to cool tobacco smoke drawn through a long hose. It is a social fixture in cafés across the Middle East and, under the name shisha, is now popular worldwide.