kabur

• kaboer (1901–1947)

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 (comparative lebih kabur, superlative paling kabur)

1. vague, ambiguous

   Synonyms: dwimakna, samar, taksa

2. blurred, blurry (of a vision)

   Synonym: buram

kabur (plural kabur-kabur)

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

   Synonyms: jerebu, jerubu

kabur

1. to flee, escape; to run away

   Synonyms: kacir, lari

• “kabur”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• (Johor) IPA^(key): /ˈkabor/ [ˈka.bor]

• (ms-SG, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈkabur/ [ˈka.bur]

kabur (Jawi spelling کابور, comparative lebih kabur, superlative paling kabur)

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

• "kabur" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017