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.
Source: wiktionary
Shofar
//ˈʃəʊ̯fə//
Synonyms for "shofar" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
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Translations
31 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- شَبُّور noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Catalan
1 entries- xofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Danish
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Dutch
1 entries- sjofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
French
4 entries- chofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- chophar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- schofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
German
4 entries- Halljahrposaune noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- Hallposaune noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- Schofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- Schofarhorn noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Hebrew
1 entries- שׁוֹפָר noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Hungarian
1 entries- sófár noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Italian
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Malay
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sjofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjofár noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Occitan
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Persian
1 entries- شوفار noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Polish
2 entries- szałfer noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- szofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Portuguese
2 entries- chofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Russian
1 entries- шофа́р noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Spanish
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Swedish
1 entries- shofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Turkish
1 entries- şofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Turkmen
1 entries- şofar noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Yiddish
1 entries- שופֿר noun (ram’s-horn trumpet)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
“This is one of those times in the history of our country and the world, where we are being presented with a wake up call — the blast of the shofar — to challenge ourselves, to ask, ‘What are we doing? What can we do?’ And know that we can do so much,” said Harris.
Source: wiktionary
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