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Indonesian
Etymology
Reconstructed as ke- + abur, awur, inherited from Malay kabur, from Classical Malay kabur, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kɓur, *ɓur (“dark, night”). Cognate of Javanese ꦏꦧꦸꦂ (kabur, “to get blown away; gone, vanished”), ꦲꦧꦸꦂ (abur, “flight through the air”), ꦏꦮꦸꦂ (kawur, “dispersed, scattered”), ꦲꦮꦸꦂ (awur, “to do haphazardly or without basis”), and Old Javanese awur (“confused, mixed up together, hard to distinguish clearly”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
kabur
- vague, ambiguous
- blurr, blurry (of a vision)
Derived terms
Noun
kabur (first-person possessive kaburku, second-person possessive kaburmu, third-person possessive kaburnya)
- shade
Verb
kabur
- to run away.
Further reading
Malay
Pronunciation
Adjective
kabur (Jawi spelling کابور)
- ambiguous; hazy; unclear
- blurred; blurry (of vision or photograph)
- Synonyms: samar-samar, kelam, redam
- vague (of speech, writing)
- not fully known; obscure
- Synonym: samar-samar
- cloudy; overcast
- Synonym: mendung
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