ile awoṣifila
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Yoruba
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Chicago_Loop_skyscrapers.jpg/220px-Chicago_Loop_skyscrapers.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]ilé (“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
[edit]Noun
[edit]ilé àwòṣífìlà
- skyscraper, high-rise
- Synonyms: ilé-aládodo, ilé gogoro