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They actually use the transliteration of that in Japanese with a similar meaning, but as you might expect the French sounds change a lot when they end up in Japanese pronunciation. Imagine my surprise when I found out that oh-dohburu wasn't actually a Japanese word originally.
To understand certain English words in katakana sometimes you just have to put yourself in the mindset of a racist ๐