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قلیان

Borrowed from Arabic غَلْيُون (ḡalyūn, “smoking pipe”), then hypercorrecting the ending [un] which colloquial Iranian Persian generally puts for trailing /ɒn/, with regard to the vulgar origin of the habit of tobacco smoking, which wrong deduction was also supported by reminiscence of Arabic غَلَيَان (ḡalayān, “boiling”).

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c. 750 CEArabic

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