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Alfuro

Alfuro is the alternative form of Alfur.

Meaning of Alfur

Noun

Alfur (plural Alfurs)

  1. (historical) An umbrella term for indigenous people of the Moluccas having Melanesian or Austronesian ancestry and not integrated into Malay‑speaking, Islamised, or Christianised, coastal polities.

Forms of Alfuro

pluralAlfuros

Origin of Alfuro

From Portuguese alfouro, alforro (“free; not enslaved”), from Arabic الحرّ (al‑ḥurr, “the free”). Compare Dutch Alfoer, Malay Alfuru, Alfura.

Questions about Alfuro

What is Alfuro the alternative form of?
Alfuro is the alternative form of Alfur.

Words near Alfuro in the dictionary

  1. Alfridaries
  2. Alfridary
  3. Alfriston
  4. alfs
  5. Alfur
  6. Alfuro
  7. Alfuros
  8. Alfurs
  9. alfuzosin
  10. alfuzosine
  11. Alfven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Alfuro (page history and authors); Alfur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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