"הטבחית מבשלת עוף."

Translation: The cook cooks chicken.

[CAA15]

Can't O'ff also mean poultry? Wasn't that a correct translation not long ago in this course? Why is it wrong here?

[AlmogL]

The word עוף has two meanings that are related but not the same. One meaning is chicken in the sense of food, and the other is a zoological classification meaning everything with feathers.

[CAA15]

I see, thanks.

[Theresa754142]

Ha-tabakhit mevashelet of.

[MatthewHaa4]

i like chicken

[Shlomo175725]

me too

[Snommelp]

So do cook as a profession and cook as a verb have different roots, then?

[NaftaliFri1]

Yes. It does make sense though, since the "cook" does not only cook, they do a variety of actions. English chose cooking as the one to describe to profession. Hebrew chose butchering.

Though in modern Hebrew, a butcher is a קצב

[CarissaS103]

I'm an American.
I would say "the cook cooks...,"

[BenjaminGo558229]

in mishnaic hebrew bashal refers specifically to cooking in liquid. Is this absolutely not implied in modern hebrew?

[YardenNB]

It absolutely is implied. There are two senses to לבשל, which I believe are identical to "cook" in English: it's preparing food in general, and preparing food by heating in hot liquid in particular.