שופר

See also: שופֿר

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
שׁ־פ־ר (sh-p-r)

Compare Akkadian 𒀉𒌋𒆤 (/⁠sappartu⁠/, “tip of an animal's horn”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

שׁוֹפָר • (shofár) m (plural indefinite שׁוֹפָרוֹת)

1. shofar

Descendants

• → Bavarian: Schofar, Schofarheandl
• → Belarusian: шафар (šafar)
• → Bulgarian: шофар (šofar)
• → Catalan: xofar
• → Czech: šofar
• →? Chuvash: шӑпӑр (šăp̬ăr)(Chuvash bagpipe)
• → Danish: shofar
• → Dutch: sjofar, sjofaar, sjoufer
• → English: shofar, shophar
• → Finnish: šofar, shofar
• → French: chofar, chophar, schofar, shofar, shophar
• → German: Schofar, Schofarhorn
• → Hungarian: sófár
• → Italian: shofar
• → Malay: shofar
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sjofar
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sjofár
• → Occitan: shofar
• → Polish: szofar
• → Portuguese: shofar, xofar
• → Russian: шофа́р (šofár)
• → Slovak: šofar
• → Slovene: šofar
• → Spanish: shofar
• → Swedish: shofar
• → Turkish: şofar
• → Turkmen: şofar
• → Ukrainian: шофар (šofar)
• → Yiddish: שופֿר (shoyfer)

See also

• קֶרֶן (qéren)

References

• “שופר” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• שופר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Yiddish

Noun

שופר • (shoyfer) m

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of שופֿר (shoyfer).