トランプ

トランプ · toranpu · JLPT N3 · noun

card game

🃏 Japanese took trump, the winning card, and made it mean the whole deck

From the English trump. Early Japanese players heard the word shouted in card games and took it as the name for the cards themselves. In Japanese, トランプ means a deck of Western playing cards, not one winning card.

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