Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nargile \Nar"gile\, Nargileh \Nar"gi*leh\, n. [Per.
   n[=a]rgh[=i]l, prop., a cocoanut; prob. so called because
   first made of a cocoanut.]
   An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible
   tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.