kabur

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Indonesian

Alternative forms

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

  1. vague, ambiguous
  2. blurr, blurry (of a vision)

Derived terms

Noun

kabur (first-person possessive kaburku, second-person possessive kaburmu, third-person possessive kaburnya)

  1. shade

Verb

kabur

  1. to run away.

Further reading

Malay

Pronunciation

Adjective

kabur (Jawi spelling کابور)

  1. ambiguous; hazy; unclear
  2. blurred; blurry (of vision or photograph)
    Synonyms: samar-samar, kelam, redam
  3. vague (of speech, writing)
  4. not fully known; obscure
    Synonym: samar-samar
  5. cloudy; overcast
    Synonym: mendung

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