shofar

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈʃəʊfə/

Noun

shofar (plural shofars)

1. (Judaism) A ram’s-horn trumpet
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade.

Translations

• French: chophar, chofar, shofar, schofar, shophar
• German: Schofar, Schofarhorn, Halljahrposaune, Hallposaune
• Italian: shofar
• Portuguese: shofar, chofar
• Russian: шофа́р
• Spanish: shofar

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