kabur

• kaboer (pre-1947)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.bʊr/
• Rhymes: -bʊr, -ʊr, -r
• Hyphenation: ka‧bur

kabur

1. vague, ambiguous

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

1. shade

kabur

1. to run away.

• “kabur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.