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kabur.

vague, ambiguous

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkabur/Standard-Indonesian[ˈka.bʊr]Standard-Indonesian

  1. vague, ambiguous

  2. blurred, blurry (of a vision)

Where this word comes from

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”).

verb/ˈkabur/Standard-Indonesian[ˈka.bʊr]Standard-Indonesian

  1. to flee, escape; to run away

Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/ˈkabur/Standard-Indonesian[ˈka.bʊr]Standard-Indonesian

  1. a haze; slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particulates

Where this word comes from

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”).

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