Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Jewish girl of 12 or 13 years of age, considered an adult and responsible for observing religious law.
- noun The ceremony that recognizes a girl as a bat mitzvah.
- transitive verb To recognize as a bat mitzvah.
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- noun Judaism A
Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl. - noun Judaism Someone who has come of age.
- verb transitive To initiate someone in a bat mitzvah ceremony
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- verb confirm in the bat mitzvah ceremony, of girls in the Jewish faith
- noun (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Hebrew bat miṣwâ : bat, daughter; see bn in Semitic roots + miṣwâ, commandment; see mitzvah.]
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Hebrew בת מצוה
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