different between shofar vs judaica

English

From the Hebrew ???????? (shofár, “shofar”)

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????f?/
(General American) IPA^(key): /??o??f?/, /??o??f??/
- (some Ashkenazim) IPA^(key): /?????f?/
- (some Lithuanian Ashkenazim) IPA^(key): /?????f?/, /?????f?/
Homophone: chauffeur (some pronunciations of both words)

shofar (plural shofars or shofroth or shofarot or shofaroth)

(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.

judaica

judaica f sg

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