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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish כּשרן (kashern), from כּשר (kosher, “kosher”).
Pronunciation
Verb
kasher (third-person singular simple present kashers, present participle kashering, simple past and past participle kashered)
- (Judaism, transitive) To render kosher.
- (of meat) to remove excess blood from by washing and salting
“Kosher salt” is called thus, not because it is any more kosher than other types of salt, but because it is used in the kashering process of meat.
- (of kitchenware) to remove traces of non-kosher substances from by cleaning, heating, etc.
David moved into his new apartment, put up mezuzahs, and kashered his new kitchen.
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Italian
Etymology
From Hebrew כשר (kashér).
Adjective
kasher (invariable)
- kosher
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Ladino
Etymology
From Hebrew כָּשֵׁר (kashér, “kosher”).
Adjective
kasher (Latin spelling)
- kosher
2019 May 22, Silvio & Eyal Ovadya, “Un evenimyento, una dicha/un proverbo”, in Şalom:Todos los ke vinieron pudieron komer ligado d’Andirne (Edirne Ciğeri) mizmo kasher, albondigas (koftes) i sarsicha (sucuk) kon salatas.- All who came could eat Edirne liver even kosher, meatballs (koftas) and sausages (soudjouk) with salads.
Further reading
- Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “kašer”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
- Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “kašér”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 275