skyscraper

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  1. A very tall building with a large number of floors.
  2. (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
  3. (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.

Têgeh

balexane

balaxane

Hevwate

high-rise building

tall building

sky-scraper

multistoried building

gratte-ciel

high-rise structure

Pircarînî

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Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.

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