shofar

• shophar

From the Hebrew שׁוֹפָר‎ (shofár, “shofar”)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃəʊfə/

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.