bat mitzvah

• bas mitzvah (via Yiddish)

From Hebrew בַּת מִצְוָה‎ (bát mitsvá, “bat mitzvah, someone who has come of age”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑt ˈmɪtsvə/

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bat mitzvah (plural bat mitzvahs or b'not mitzvah)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl.
2. (Judaism) A girl who has come of age.

• bar mitzvah

bat mitzvah (third-person singular simple present bat mitzvahs, present participle bat mitzvahing, simple past and past participle bat mitzvahed)

1. (transitive) To initiate (someone) in a bat mitzvah ceremony.
   • 2022 October 1, Jessica Grose, “Teaching My Kids How to Be Jewish, One Plate of Apples at a Time”, in The New York Times‎:

     Though I was bat mitzvah’d, my parents always made it clear that they weren’t big proponents of organized religion either. But being Jewish was still woven into the fabric of my upbringing with rituals, family history and core values.