òfiara

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ofiara"

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish ofiara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɛˈfjara/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ò‧fia‧ra

Noun

òfiara f (diminutive òfiôrka, related adjective òfiarny)

1. offering; donation (that which is given to help someone or support a noble cause)
2. (religion) offering; sacrifice (gift given to God in return for mercy)
3. 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)
4. sacrifice (person offering or sacrificing themself)

Declension

Declension of òfiara

	singular	plural
nominative	òfiara	òfiarë
genitive	òfiarë	òfiarów/òfiôr
dative	òfierze	òfiaróm
accusative	òfiarã	òfiarë
instrumental	òfiarą	òfiarama
locative	òfierze	òfiarach
vocative	òfiaro	òfiarë

Derived terms

verbs

• òfiarowac impf

 

Related terms

adverbs

• òfiarno

 

nouns

• òfiarnota
• òfiarënk
• òfiarôcz

 

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