Etymology

kuroboshi

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Japanese 黒星
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from黒星“black star”
  2. English todaykuroboshi

From Japanese 黒星 (“black star”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.