דת

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾt' /⁠dāt, dād⁠/, “law, justice”), Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎫𐎶 (d-a-t-m /⁠dātam⁠/), a cognate of English data.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /dat/

דָּת • (dat) f (plural indefinite דָּתוֹת‎, singular construct דַּת־‎)

1. religion
   • c. 200 CE, “Sukkah 56”, in Mishnah:

     ‏מעשה במרים בת בילגה שהמירה דתה, והלכה ונשאת לסרדיוט אחד ממלכי יוונים‎

     It happened that Miriam bat Bilgah changed her religion and married an officer of the Greek kings.

• In Biblical Hebrew, the construct form was דָּת, as seen in, e.g., Esther 2:12 and Esther 9:13.

• דָּתִי‎