Etymograph

English

hanachas tefillin

Hanachas tefillin comes from Hebrew הֲנָחַת תְּפִלִּין ‘putting on of tefillin’.

  1. Hebrew1880s–presentהֲנָחַת תְּפִלִּין‘putting on of tefillin’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2024hanachas tefillin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Hebrew1880s–presentהֲנָחַת תְּפִלִּין‘putting on of tefillin’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2024hanachas tefillin

Earliest quotation: 2024, David Golinkin, The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony: “Originally, Yemenite Jews had no Bar Mitzvah ceremony at…”

Today it means

noun A ceremony at which a child first wears tefillin, typically held a short time before the bar mitzvah.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Hebrew הֲנָחַת תְּפִלִּין / hanachas tefillin