kurun

From Proto-Western Mande *kúreN.

kúrun

1. stool
2. canoe, small boat
3. means of transport

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

kurun

1. genitive singular of kuru

Inherited from Malay kurun.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkurun/ [ˈku.rʊn]
• Rhymes: -urun
• Syllabification: ku‧run

kurun (plural kurun-kurun)

1. epoch

   Synonym: kala

2. (rare) century

   Synonym: abad

3. era
4. time frame

• “kurun”, 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

Borrowed from Arabic قُرُون (qurūn), plural of قَرْن (qarn).

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈkuron/ [ˈku.ron]
  • Rhymes: -uron, -ron, -on

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈkurun/ [ˈku.run]
  • Rhymes: -urun, -run, -un
• Hyphenation: ku‧run

kurun (Jawi spelling قرون, plural kurun-kurun or kurun²)

1. century (period of 100 years)

   Synonym: abad

   kurun ke-20 ― the 20th century

• Indonesian: kurun

• kurun on the Malay Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ms
• "kurun" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

kurun

1. romanization of 𒁉𒁷 (kurun)