hookah vs shisha

hookah and shisha both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hookah	Yes	No	No	No
shisha	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hookah and shisha are synonyms defined as:

hookah and shisha: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

Other synonyms of hookah include calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, water pipe.

hookah (noun)	shisha (noun)
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water	an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water