òfiara
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ofiara"
Kashubian
Etymology
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
| 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