ile awoṣifila
Yoruba
editEtymology
editilé (“house,building”) + a- (“nominalizing prefix”) + wò (“to look”) + ṣí (“to open, to fall off”) + fìlà (“hat”), literally “The building that when we look up to see it, our hat falls off”
Pronunciation
editNoun
editilé àwòṣífìlà
- skyscraper, high-rise
- Synonyms: ilé-aládodo, ilé gogoro