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kurung

Pronunciation: /ˈkuruŋ/

“kurung” is an Indonesian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

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

verb

  1. to put in a cage.
  2. to confine, to imprison, to impound, to incarcerate.
  3. to surround, to encircle
  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

Etymology

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

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