sacrifice

(noun) sadaukarwa, hadaya
sadaukar da kai

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/

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• Hyphenation: sac‧ri‧fice

Noun

Singular sacrifice

Plural sacrifices

1. A sacrifice is something that a person gives up in order to help him or somebody else. A person who makes a sacrifice for a friend will do something that he might not want to do in order to help his friend.
2. A sacrifice is an offer given as a gift to a god.

   People in the Old Testament offered a lamb as a sacrifice to God for forgiveness.

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) sacrifice

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) sacrifices

Past tense (ya wuce) sacrificed

Past participle (ya wuce) sacrificed

Present participle (ana cikin yi) sacrificing

1. If you sacrifice someone or something, you give them up for other things.

Related words

• sacrificial