òfiara

== Kashubian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Polish ofiara. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wɛˈfja.ra/ Rhymes: -ara Syllabification: ò‧fia‧ra === Noun === òfiara f (diminutive òfiôrka, related adjective òfiarny) offering; donation (that which is given to help someone or support a noble cause) (religion) offering; sacrifice (gift given to God in return for mercy) sacrifice (destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose) sacrifice (person offering or sacrificing themself) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === Stefan Ramułt (1893), “wœfjara”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 224 Sychta, Bernard (1967), “of́ara”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 292 Jan Trepczyk (1994), “ofiara”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2 Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ofiara”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1] “òfiara”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022