кальян — meaning in English

English meaning

• calabash noun A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
• hookah noun A water pipe with a long flexible tube, traditionally used for smoking flavoured tobacco.

Senses

кальян is used for these senses in English:

• calabash A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
• hookah (recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

calabash — full definition

1. noun A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
2. noun A climbing plant thought to come from Africa, grown for its fruit, which is eaten as a vegetable or made into containers; also the fruit itself.
3. noun A container made from the dried outer shell of this fruit, or something shaped like it made from another material.
4. noun Such a container together with whatever is inside it; the amount it holds.

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