A chibouk (; ; from the (English: "stick" from the Persian word choobak "چوبک" meaning small wooden stick) (Albanian: "Çibuk"); also romanized ''čopoq'', ''ciunoux'' or ''tchibouque'') is a very long-stemmed Turkish

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pipe, often featuring a

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bowl ornamented with precious stones. The stem of the chibouk generally ranges between 4 and 5 ft. (1.2 and 1.5 m), much longer than even Western churchwarden pipes. While primarily known as a Turkish pipe, the chibouk was once popular across the

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and in Iran as well. Like Chinese

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s, chibouk are antiquated smoking devices, and are rarely, if at all produced in modern times. Their use in Turkey and the Middle East may have died out with the growing popularity of the

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and

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. Old chibouk and chibouk bowls can still be purchased as antiques. Similar pipes were once used in

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to smoke

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. Some specialized chibouk were produced to act as long, cigarette-holding pipes. Some had detachable mouthpieces.

Enver Pasha İsmâil Enver (; ; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), better known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish people, Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and Istanbul trials of 1919–1920, convicted war criminal who was a p ...

was known to have smoked chibouk,Detail of 1910 CORBIS photo of Enver Pasha smoking a chibouk
/ref> as was Jirjis al-Jawhari (Moallem Guerguis Koft), a Coptic Egyptian leader appointed the General Steward of all Egypt by Napoleon in 1798. ''The Chibouk Smoker'' by

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, ''Turc Au Chibouk'' by James Lewis Caw, ''Interieur d'un café Turc'' by Chevalier Auguste de Henikstein, and ''Guerrier fumant le Chibouk'' by Johann Hermann are examples of chibouk featured in art and illustration. File:Ernst - Le fumeur de chibouk.jpg, Rudolf Ernst, ''Chibouk smoker'' File:Muhammad_Ali_Paşa_and_Emir_Bashir_II.jpg, Depiction of

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and

Bashir Shihab II Bashir Shihab II (, also spelled Bachir Chehab II; 2 January 1767–1850) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese emir who ruled the Mount Lebanon Emirate, Emirate of Mount Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century. Born to a branch of the Shihab dy ...

with chibouks File:Archonte Grec, dessiné par le baron de Stackelberg - Stackelberg Otto Magnus Von - 1828.jpg, An 1828 illustration of a Greek

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holding a chibouk by Otto Magnus von Stackelberg. File:11 Monteneginer.jpg, An 1870 painting of a Montenegrin man smoking a chibouk by Louis Salvator

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