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Borrowed from Hebrew מבושל / מְבֻשָּׁל (m'vushál, literally “cooked”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mevushal
Today it means: cooked so as to render it unfit for idolatrous purposes, thereby making it permissible even in the event that it is subsequently handled by a gentile Full definition →