Tower of Babel

See also: tower of Babel

English

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 f
• Arabic: بُرْج بَابِل (burj bābil)
• Armenian: Բաբելոնյան աշտարակ (Babelonyan aštarak)
• Asturian: Torre de Babel f
• Basque: Babelgo dorrea
• Catalan: Torre de Babel f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴別塔／巴别塔 (zh) (Bābiétǎ), 巴别塔 (zh) (bābiétǎ)

  Min Dong: 巴別塔／巴别塔, 巴别塔 (Bă-biĕk-ták)

• Crimean Tatar: Babil qullesi
• Danish: Babelstårnet
• Dutch: toren van Babel m
• Esperanto: Babela turo
• Finnish: Baabelin torni
• French: tour de Babel (fr) f
• Galician: Torre de Babel f
• Georgian: ბაბილონის გოდოლი (babilonis godoli)
• German: Turmbau zu Babel m
• Greek: Πύργος της Βαβέλ m (Pýrgos tis Vavél)
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• Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל m (migdál bavél)
• Irish: Túr Bháibil m
• Italian: Torre di Babele f
• Japanese: バベルの塔 (ja) (baberu no tō)
• Latvian: Bābeles tornis m
• Lithuanian: Babelio bokštas (lt) m
• Occitan: Torre de Babel f
• Persian: برج بابل (borj-e bâbel)
• Polish: wieża Babel (pl) f
• Portuguese: Torre de Babel f
• Romanian: Turnul Babel n
• Russian: Вавило́нская ба́шня (ru) f (Vavilónskaja bášnja)
• Sicilian: Turri di Babbeli f
• Slovak: babylonská veža f
• Spanish: Torre de Babel f
• Swedish: Babels torn
• Thai: หอคอยบาเบล (hŏr koi baabayn)
• Turkish: Babil Kulesi
• Urdu: بابل کا برج

Noun

Tower of Babel (plural Towers of Babel)

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