Etymology

kabufuda

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Today it means: Small, rigid Japanese playing cards, a single deck consisting of 40 cards with values ranging from 1 to 10, used for playing hand-comparing betting games such as oicho-kabu. Full definition →

Portuguese cabo
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The story

  1. Portuguese · derived fromcabo“end”
  2. English todaykabufuda

From Japanese 株(かぶ)札(ふだ) (kabufuda), a compound of カブ (kabu, “the 9 card in kabufuda”) + 札 (fuda, “card”). The former is borrowed from Portuguese cabo (“end”, for being the highest non-face card).

Words from the same roots

Portuguesecabo all →

oicho-kabu

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.