bar mitzvah
To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremonyTo initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony.
» The bar-mitzvah party was cancelled due to illness.
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1 sensesTo initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony.
He was bar mitzvahed at the Kotel.
confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith
Examples
3 sentencesThe bar-mitzvah party was cancelled due to illness.
You ruined my bar mitzvah.
Tom is having his Bar Mitzvah next month.
deTom hat im nächsten Monat seine „Bar Mitsvah“. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Hebrew בר מצווה / בַּר מִצְוָה (literally “of the age of mitzvah”).From Hebrew בר מצווה / בַּר מִצְוָה (literally “of the age of mitzvah”).
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Forms
bar mitzvahs, bar mitzvahing, bar mitzvahed, bar mitzvahed| Base form | bar mitzvah · to bar mitzvah |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | bar mitzvahs |
| Present participle | bar mitzvahing |
| Past simple | bar mitzvahed |
| Past participle | bar mitzvahed |
regular
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.