kurung.
cage
Meaning & usage
cage
prison; jail
confinement
parenthesis; brackets
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay kurung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ.
to put in a cage.
to confine, to imprison, to impound, to incarcerate.
to surround, to encircle
to bracket, to put in parentheses, to parenthesize.
to cage, to coop, to encage, to stay cooped up.
to enclose
to hedge off
to box in
to shut in
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay kurung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ.
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