# offering
## English
### Etymology

From offer +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: of‧fer‧ing

### Noun

offering (plural offerings)
* gerund of offer
** The act by which something is offered.
** That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
** 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, 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.
** A contribution given at a religious service.
** 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
* offering plate
* peace offering
* public offering
* sin offering
* trespass offering
* wave offering

#### Related terms

* offer
* offertory
* oblate
* oblation

#### Translations

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)
Hindi: बलिदान (hi) m (balidān)
Ingrian: verha
Khiamniungan Naga: chāithíu, chāithíu
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) :

### Verb

offering
* 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
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “offering”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “offering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.