דת

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

Semantic shift from "law" to "religious law" to "religion".

• (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

From Hebrew דת.

דת • (das) ?

1. religion; creed

   Synonym: רעליגיע (religye)

• Steven A. Jacobson (1998) A Guide to the More Common Hebraic Words in Yiddish, 5th edition, Fairbanks, AK: National Yiddish Book Center, →ISBN, page 51