shofar

English

Alternative forms

• shophar

Etymology

From the Hebrew שׁוֹפָר (shofár, “shofar”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊ̯fə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃoʊ̯fɚ/, /ˈʃoʊ̯fɑɹ/
  • (some Ashkenazim) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔɪ̯fɚ/
  • (German Ashkenazim) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaʊ̯fɔʁ/
  • (some Lithuanian Ashkenazim) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛɪ̯fɚ/, /ˈʃəɪ̯fɚ/
• Homophone: chauffeur (some pronunciations of both words)

Noun

shofar (plural shofars or shofroth or shofarot or shofaroth)

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

ram’s-horn trumpet

• Arabic: شَبُّور (šabbūr)
• Catalan: xofar m
• Danish: shofar c
• Dutch: sjofar (nl) m
• French: chophar (fr) m, chofar (fr) m, shofar (fr) m, schofar (fr) m, shophar (fr) m
• German: Schofar (de) m, Schofarhorn n, Halljahrposaune f, Hallposaune f
• Hebrew: שׁוֹפָר (he) m (shofár)
• Hungarian: sófár (hu)
• Italian: shofar (it) m
• Malay: shofar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjofar m

  Nynorsk: sjofár m

• Occitan: shofar m
• Polish: szofar (pl) m, szałfer m
• Portuguese: shofar m, chofar m
• Russian: шофа́р (ru) m (šofár)
• Spanish: shofar (es) m
• Swedish: shofar (sv) c
• Turkish: şofar
• Turkmen: şofar
• Yiddish: שופֿר m (shoyfer)

Spanish

Noun

shofar m (plural shofares)

1. shofar