Etymology

otome

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Japanese 乙女
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from乙女“young girl; maiden”
  2. English todayotome

From Japanese 乙女 (otome, “young girl; maiden”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.