kabur

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Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Adjective

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kabur

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

Derived terms

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Noun

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

  1. shade

Verb

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kabur

  1. to run away.

Further reading

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Malay

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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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