Tower of Babel

See also tower of Babel

English

Wikipedia

Proper noun

The Tower of Babel (1563), painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

the Tower of Babel

1. (biblical) A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.

Translations

tower erected at Babel

• Albanian: Kulla e Babelit (sq) f
• Arabic: برج بابل (ar)
• Armenian: Բաբելոնյան աշտարակ (hy) (Babelonyan aštarak) 
• Asturian: Torre de Babel (ast) f
• Basque: Babelgo dorrea (eu)
• Catalan: Torre de Babel (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 巴別塔, simpl. 巴别塔 (pinyin: bābiétǎ)

• Danish: Babelstårnet (da)
• Dutch: toren van Babel (nl) m
• Esperanto: Babela turo (eo)
• French: tour de Babel (fr) f
• Galician: Torre de Babel (gl) f
• Georgian: ბაბილონის გოდოლი (ka) (Babilonis godoli) 
• German: Turmbau zu Babel (de) m
• Greek: Πύργος της Βαβέλ (el) (Pýrgos tis Vavél) m 
• Hebrew: מגדל בבל (he) (Migdal Bavel) m

• Italian: Torre di Babele (it) f
• Japanese: バベルの塔 (ja) (baberu no tō)
• Latvian: Bābeles tornis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: Babelio bokštas (lt) m
• Min Dong: Bă-biĕk-ták
• Occitan: Torre de Babel (oc) f
• Persian: برج بابل (fa)
• Portuguese: Torre de Babel (pt) f
• Romanian: Turnul Babel (ro) n
• Russian: Вавилонская башня (ru) (Vavilónskaja bášnja) f 
• Sicilian: Turri di Babbeli (scn) f
• Spanish: Torre de Babel (es) f
• Swedish: Babels torn (sv)
• Thai: หอคอยบาเบล (th)
• Turkish: Babil Kulesi (tr)
• Urdu: بابل کا برج (ur)

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• Slovak: babylonská veža f

Noun

Tower of Babel (plural Towers of Babel)

1. (figuratively) A visionary and impractical plan.
2. Alternative spelling of tower of Babel.