WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shisha
    n 1: an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube
         connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by
         passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and
         Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn:
         hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha,
         chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubble-
         bubble, hubbly-bubbly]

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):

Shisha, of marble; pleasant