kosher

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   conforming to Jewish dietary law; informally, legitimate or proper

   The restaurant serves only kosher meat.

Simplified etymology

Kosher comes from Hebrew kāsēr, meaning “right” or “proper,” and entered English in the mid nineteenth century for food prepared according to Jewish dietary law. By the 1880s it had also acquired the slang sense “genuine” or “legitimate.”

From Yiddish kosher, from Hebrew kāshēr ('fit, proper, lawful').

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