Etymology

kinboshi

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Today it means: An honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna. Full definition →

Japanese 金星
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from金星“gold star”
  2. English todaykinboshi

Borrowed from Japanese 金星 (kinboshi, “gold star”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.