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kurung.

cage

6 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkuruŋ/Standard-Indonesian[ˈku.rʊŋ]Standard-Indonesian
  1. cage

  2. prison; jail

  3. confinement

  4. parenthesis; brackets

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay kurung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ.

verb/ˈkuruŋ/Standard-Indonesian[ˈku.rʊŋ]Standard-Indonesian
  1. to put in a cage.

  2. to confine, to imprison, to impound, to incarcerate.

  3. to surround, to encircle

  4. to bracket, to put in parentheses, to parenthesize.

  5. to cage, to coop, to encage, to stay cooped up.

  6. to enclose

  7. to hedge off

  8. to box in

  9. to shut in

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay kurung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ.

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