It also does in Spanish, it's a (rather old, but still used) shortened version of "retard" (from "mongólico", originally used to describe people with Down's syndrome).
This is true in virtually all languages, as John Langdon Down used it to refer to the syndrome he first characterized, that today instead bears his name.
It’s funny. Someone I used to know from Scotland is/was a software tester by day. She went mental about the name of their companies new DB. All over social media. “Derogatory, backwards”
