ilé àwòṣífìlà
noun
/ī.lé à.wò.ʃí.fì.là/
Definitions
- skyscraper, high-rise
Etymology
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”
Component words
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “ile awoṣifila”.
Reference:
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