skyscraper

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• General-American: /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)/
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• CMU ARPABET: S K AY1 S K R EY2 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Compound of sky + scraper, first applied to tall steel-frame buildings in American cities such as New York City and Chicago in the 1880s.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: wolkekrabber — tall building
• Albanian: qiellgërvishtës — tall building
• Albanian: rrokaqiell — tall building
• Arabic: نَاطِحَة سَحَاب (nāṭiḥat saḥāb) — tall building
• Armenian: երկնաքեր (erknakʻer) — tall building
• Azerbaijani: göydələn — tall building
• Basque: etxeorratz — tall building
• Belarusian: небася́г (njebasjáh) — tall building
• Bengali: গগনচুম্বী (gognocumbi) — tall building
• Bengali: আকাশঝাড়ু (akaśjhaṛu) — tall building
• Bulgarian: небостърга́ч (nebostǎrgáč) — tall building
• Burmese: မိုးမျှော်တိုက် (mui:hmyautuik) — tall building
• Catalan: gratacel — tall building
• Chinese Cantonese: 摩天樓 /摩天楼 (mo1 tin1 lau4) — tall building
• Chinese Mandarin: 摩天大樓 /摩天大楼 (mótiān dàlóu) — tall building
• Chinese Mandarin: 摩天樓 /摩天楼 (mótiānlóu) — tall building
• Crimean Tatar: kökteşken — tall building
• Czech: mrakodrap — tall building
• Danish: skyskraber — tall building
• Dutch: wolkenkrabber — tall building
• Elfdalian: stjyskrapu — tall building
• Erzya: менельтокиця (meneľtokića) — tall building
• Esperanto: nubskrapulo — tall building
• Estonian: pilvelõhkuja — tall building
• Faroese: háhús — tall building
• Finnish: pilvenpiirtäjä — tall building
• French: gratte-ciel — tall building
• West-Frisian: wolkekliuwer — tall building
• West-Frisian: wolkekrabber — tall building
• Galician: rañaceos — tall building
• Georgian: ცათამბჯენი (catambǯeni) — tall building
• German: Wolkenkratzer — tall building
• German: Hochhaus — tall building
• Greek: ουρανοξύστης (ouranoxýstis) — tall building
• Greenlandic: skyskraberi — tall building
• Gujarati: ગગનચુંબી (gagancumbī) — tall building
• Haitian Creole: gratsyèl — tall building
• Hebrew: גּוֹרֵד־שְׁחָקִים (goréd-sh'khakím) — tall building
• Hindi: गगनचुंबी इमारत (gagancumbī imārat) — tall building
• Hindi: गगनचुंबी भवन (gagancumbī bhavan) — tall building
• Hungarian: felhőkarcoló — tall building
• Icelandic: skýjakljúfur — tall building
• Ido: cieloskrapero — tall building
• Indonesian: pencakar langit — tall building
• Irish: ilstórach — tall building
• Irish: teach spéire — tall building
• Italian: grattacielo — tall building
• Japanese: 超高層ビル (chōkōsō biru) — tall building
• Japanese: 摩天楼 (matenrō) — tall building
• Javanese: pencakar langit — tall building
• Kannada: ಗಗನಚುಂಬಿ (gaganacumbi) — tall building
• Kazakh: көктіреген (köktıregen) — tall building
• Korean: 마천루 (macheollu) — tall building
• Korean: 초고층 건물 (chogocheung geonmul) — tall building
• Northern Kurdish: balexane — tall building
• Kyrgyz: небоскрёб (neboskryob) — tall building
• Latin: caeliscalpium — tall building
• Latvian: debesskrāpis — tall building
• Lithuanian: dangoraižis — tall building
• Luxembourgish: Wollekekrazert — tall building
• Macedonian: облакоде́р (oblakodér) — tall building
• Malay: pencakar langit — tall building
• Malayalam: അംബരച്ചുംബി (ambaraccumbi) — tall building
• Maltese: skajskrejper — tall building
• Māori: whare tīkoke — tall building
• Marathi: गगनचुंबी (gagancumbī) — tall building
• Nepali: गगनचुम्बी भवन (gaganacumbī bhavan) — tall building
• Norwegian Bokmål: skyskraper — tall building
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skyskrapar — tall building
• Occitan: gratacèl — tall building
• Pannonian Rusyn: солитер (soliter) — tall building
• Pannonian Rusyn: нєботичнїк (njebotičnjik) — tall building
• Pashto: ستورڅک (storśak) — tall building
• Iranian Persian: آسْمانخَراش (âsmân-xarâš) — tall building
• Piedmontese: gratacel — tall building
• Plautdietsch: Wolkjenkrauza — tall building
• Polish: wieżowiec — tall building
• Polish: drapacz chmur — tall building
• Polish: drapacz — tall building
• Portuguese: arranha-céus — tall building
• Romanian: zgârie-nori — tall building
• Romanian: building — tall building
• Romansh: sgrattatschiel — tall building
• Russian: небоскрёб (neboskrjób) — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: солѝте̄р — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: не̏боде̄р — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: облакодер — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: solìtēr — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: nȅbodēr — tall building
• Serbo-Croatian: oblakoder — tall building
• Slovak: mrakodrap — tall building
• Slovene: nebotičnik — tall building
• Spanish: rascacielos — tall building
• Spanish: torre — tall building
• Swahili: kikunawingu — tall building
• Swedish: skyskrapa — tall building
• Tagalog: kayudlangit — tall building
• Tajik: осмонхарош (osmonxaroš) — tall building
• Tamil: வானளாவி (vāṉaḷāvi) — tall building
• Tamil: உயரமான கட்டிடத்தை (uyaramāṉa kaṭṭiṭattai) — tall building
• Tatar: күктерәү (kükteräw) — tall building
• Telugu: ఆకాశసౌధము (ākāśasaudhamu) — tall building
• Thai: ตึกระฟ้า (dtʉ̀k-rá-fáa) — tall building
• Turkish: gökdelen — tall building
• Ukrainian: хмарочо́с (xmaročós) — tall building
• Urdu: فَلَک بوس عِمارَت (falak bos 'imārat) — tall building
• Urdu: کَثِیر اُلْمَنازِل عِمارَت (kasīr ulmanāzil 'imārat) — tall building
• Uzbek: osmonoʻpar — tall building
• Vietnamese: nhà chọc trời — tall building
• Welsh: entrychdy — tall building
• Welsh: nendwr — tall building
• Welsh: cwmwlgrafwr — tall building
• Yiddish: סקייסקרייפּער (skeyskreyper) — tall building
• Yoruba: ilé àwòṣífìlà — tall building
• Yoruba: ilé gogoro — tall building
• Hungarian: csúcsvitorla — sail
• Polish: trójkątny żagiel masztowy — sail