דת

From Middle Persian dʾt' (dāt, dād, “law, justice”), Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎫 (dāta-), from Proto-Iranian *dāta-, from the root *√dā (“to give, put”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-; Cognate to Persian داد‎ (dâd) and, more remotely, Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”).

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

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

1. religion

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

• דָּתִי‎