shofar

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shofar

/ˈʃəʊ̯fə/ UK
/ˈʃoʊ̯fɚ/ US
/ˈʃoʊ̯fɑɹ/ US
/ʃoʊ̯ˈfɑɹ/ US
/ˈʃɔɪ̯fɚ/
/ˈʃaʊ̯fɔʁ/
/ˈʃɛɪ̯fɚ/
/ˈʃəɪ̯fɚ/

Sounds like chauffeur (some pronunciations of both words)

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

noun shofars · shofroth · shofarot · shofaroth · shophar

Judaism, countable A ram’s-horn trumpet, used for Jewish ritual purposes. 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.

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noun ram’s-horn trumpet

Español	shofar
हिन्दी	शोफ़ार śofār
Português	shofar, chofar
Français	chophar, chofar, shofar, schofar, shophar
Deutsch	Schofar, Schofarhorn, Halljahrposaune, Hallposaune
Italiano	shofar
Русский	шофа́р šofár
العربية	شَبُّور šabbūr
עברית	שׁוֹפָר shofár

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@misc{shofar_2026,
  title = {shofar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shofar},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}