kungkung

Possibly from Old Javanese kuṅkuṅ.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkuŋkuŋ/ [ˈkuŋ.kʊŋ]
• Rhymes: -uŋkuŋ
• Syllabification: kung‧kung

kungkung

1. shackle

kungkung (active mengungkung, passive dikungkung)

1. (transitive) to shackle (to restrain using shackles; to place in shackles)

• (all senses): belenggu

• “kungkung”, 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
• “mengungkung”, 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

kungkung

1. water bucket
2. a measure of quantity
3. sound of tapping, flicking finger against wood, etc.