How to say "offering" in Japanese

• 献金けんきんCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbCovers only the monetary sense: a donation or contribution of money to a political party, charity, or cause. It is not the word for ritual offerings to gods.
  多おおくのアメリカの政治家せいじかは選挙せんきょキャンペーンのため金持かねもちからの献金けんきんをあてにしている。↗

  Many U.S. politicians depend on contributions from fat cats for their campaigns.
• 奉納ほうのうCommon
  suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectiveThe act of dedicating or presenting something to a deity; an oblation. Use it for solemn offerings made at a shrine or temple, where the emphasis is on the act of dedication.
  知事ちじは戦死せんしした兵士へいしたちに記念碑きねんひを奉納ほうのうした。↗

  The governor dedicated the memorial to the soldiers who died in the war.
• 売り物うりものCommon
  nounThe commercial sense: an article or goods offered for sale. Choose this when 'offering' means what a shop or seller has for sale; it has nothing to do with religious giving.
  その犬いぬが欲ほしければ買かえますよ。それは売り物うりものですから。↗

  You can buy that dog if you want to. It is for sale.
• 供物くもつCommon
  nounA votive offering: the concrete item presented to the gods, set out before a deity or the dead. Use this for the physical offering itself rather than the act of giving it.
  「これは何なん？供物くもつか？」「そうだよ、このお賽銭箱さいせんばこの中なかに入いれて・・・この紐ひもを引っ張ひっぱるの」↗

  "What is this? An offering?" "That's right. Put it in this offertory box ... and pull this rope."
• 供えそなえCommon
  nounAn offering set before a god or the dead; it overlaps closely with 供物, and when you mean the item itself, 供物 is the noun to reach for.

Choose by sense: 献金 for monetary donations, 「売り物」 for goods for sale, 奉納 for the act of dedicating something to a deity, and 供物 or 「供え」 for the votive offering itself set before gods or the dead.

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• 献金けんきんdonation
• 奉納ほうのうdedication
• 売り物うりものarticle for sale
• 供物くもつoffering (e.g. to the gods)
• 供えそなえoffering
• 供え物そなえものoffering (e.g. to the gods)
• 捧げ物ささげものoffering
• 献納けんのうoffering
• 供料きょうりょうoffering
• 御供えおそなえoffering
• 献物けんもつoffering (to a shogun, emperor, daimyo, kami or Buddha)
• 幣貢へいこうoffering
• 奉呈ほうていpresentation (to someone of high status)
• 初穂はつほoffering (to the gods)