kurung

See also: Kurung

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay kurung, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈkuruŋ/ [ˈku.rʊŋ]
  • Rhymes: -uruŋ
  • Syllabification: ku‧rung

Noun

kurung (plural kurung-kurung)

  1. cage
  2. prison; jail
  3. confinement
  4. parenthesis; brackets

Derived terms

Verb

kurung (active mengurung, reflexive passive terkurung, ordinary passive dikurung, imperative kurung, emphatic-jussive kurunglah)

  1. to put in a cage.
  2. to confine, to imprison, to impound, to incarcerate.
  3. to surround, to encircle
    Synonym: kepung
  4. to bracket, to put in parentheses, to parenthesize.
  5. to cage, to coop, to encage, to stay cooped up.
  6. to enclose
  7. to hedge off
  8. to box in
  9. to shut in

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

kurung

  1. romanization of ꦏꦸꦫꦸꦁ

Kambera

Noun

kurung

  1. room

References

  • Marian Klamer (1998), A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuruŋ. Compare Acehnese kurông and Tagalog kulong, Ilocano kurong.

Noun

kurung (Jawi spelling کوروڠ, plural kurung-kurung)

  1. cage
    Synonym: kurungan

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: kurung (inherited)
  • → Macanese: curum

Further reading

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