offering

English

Etymology

An offering of flowers and candles at the foot of the Croix de l'Évangile (Cross of the Gospel), a wayside cross in Paris, France.

From offer +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: of‧fer‧ing

Noun

offering (plural offerings)

1. gerund of offer
   1. The act by which something is offered.
   2. That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
   3. An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
      • 1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 69–70:

        In many ways an ancient well-established situation is in Place: a dead military hero has reappeared as a ghost bringing trouble and even death to the officials who come to administer the Hsiang-chou prefecture at An-yang; they build a temple in his honour and make him regular offerings of bloody food; he then protects and supports the administrators who are responsible.

   4. A contribution given at a religious service.
   5. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered, such as for sale
      • 1996, Caryn Franklin, Franklin on fashion:

        In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.

Derived terms

• burnt offering
• guilt offering
• heave offering
• initial coin offering
• initial public offering
• love offering
• meat offering
• offering formula
• peace offering
• public offering
• sin offering
• trespass offering
• wave offering

 

Related terms

• offer
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

act of offering

• Breton: kinnig (br) m
• Bulgarian: предлагане n (predlagane)
• Catalan: oferiment m
• Finnish: tarjoaminen (fi); uhraaminen (fi)
• French: offre (fr) f
• Galician: ofrecemento (gl) m
• German: Angebot (de) n, Anerbieten (de) n
• Latin: oblātiō (la)
• Portuguese: oferecimento (pt) m, oferta (pt) f
• Russian: предложе́ние (ru) n (predložénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ìobairt f
• Spanish: ofrecimiento (es) m
• Swahili: toleo (sw)

that which has been offered; a sacrifice

• Arabic: قُرْبَان m (qurbān)
• Bulgarian: жертва (bg) f (žertva)
• Catalan: oferiment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: oběť (cs) f, obětina f
• Egyptian: (ḥtp)
• Esperanto: ofero (eo)
• Finnish: tarjous (fi); uhri (fi), uhrilahja (fi)
• French: offrande (fr) f
• German: Opfer (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: προσφορή f (prosphorḗ)

• Hebrew: מִנְחָה (he) f (minḥá)
• Ingrian: verha
• Latvian: upuris (lv) m
• Maori: raupanga, whakareinga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ofring m or f

  Nynorsk: ofring f

• Portuguese: oferenda (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ìobairt f
• Serbo-Croatian: žrtva (sh) f
• Slovak: obeť f, obeta f
• Spanish: ofrecimiento (es) m, ofrenda (es) f, presentalla f
• Swahili: toleo (sw)
• Turkish: kurban (tr)

oblation or presentation made as a religious act

• Arabic: قُرْبَان m (qurbān)
• Bulgarian: жертвоприношение n (žertvoprinošenie)
• Esperanto: ofero (eo)
• Finnish: uhraus (fi), uhraaminen (fi)
• French: offrande (fr) f
• German: Opfergabe (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻 n (hunsl)
• Ingrian: verha
• Irish: ofráil f
• Latvian: upuris (lv) m
• Maori: pito, whakahere, raupanga, omaki (refers to food offerings)
• Romanian: ofrandă (ro) f
• Sanskrit: बलि (sa) m (bali)
• Scottish Gaelic: ìobairt
• Swahili: toleo (sw)

contribution given at a religious service

• Bulgarian: дарение (bg) n (darenie)
• Finnish: kolehti (fi)
• Irish: ofráil f
• Maori: whakahere
• Swahili: toleo (sw)

Verb

offering

1. present participle and gerund of offer
   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Further reading

• offering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “offering”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “offering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.