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See also: tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel (1563), painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

(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.

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 (zh), 巴别塔 (zh) ‎(bābiétǎ)

Min Dong: 巴別塔, 巴别塔 ‎(Bă-biĕk-ták)
Crimean Tatar: Babil qullesi
Danish: Babelstårnet
Dutch: toren van Babel m
Esperanto: Babela turo
French: tour de Babel (fr) f
Galician: Torre de Babel f
Georgian: ბაბილონის გოდოლი ‎(babilonis godoli)
German: Turmbau zu Babel m

Tower of Babel ‎(plural Towers of Babel)