obskura

Etymology
A common root. Already attested in the early 20th century but uncommon until the 1930s, so influence from 🇨🇬 is possible.

Adjective

 * 1) obscure (unclear)
 * 2) obscure (not well-known)
 * 3) dark (not light)
 * 1) dark (not light)
 * 1) dark (not light)

Adjective

 * 1)  dark, not light
 * 2) * Fernando Tejón, "La anmo di kalkulilo", in Adavane!, 19, January - February 2007, 5.
 * Itere esas videbla e tushebla la qualeso en la extera materiali, itere la kolori esas obskura, serioza, kolori di altaqualesa kalkulilo e ne di chipa ludilo.
 * Again the quality is visible and palpable in the materials of which the exterior is made, again the colours are dark, serious, colours of a high-quality calculator and not of a cheap toy.
 * 1) obscure, not evident, hidden
 * 2) * Jorge Luis Borges, La Biblioteko di Babel, tr. by James Chandler in 2004, "The Anatomy of Melancholy", part 2 II IV.
 * (La mistiki klamas ke lia extazo revelas a li cirklala chambro kontenanta granda cirklala libro, di qua la spino es kontinua e qua sequas la kompleta cirklo dil muri; ma lia atesto es suspektenda; lia vorti, obskura. Ica ciklala libro es Deo.)
 * (The mystics shout that their ecstasy reveals to them a circular chamber containing a large circular book, whose back is continuous and which traces the complete circle of the walls; but their witness is suspicious; theirs words, dark. This circular book is God.)
 * 1) dark, gloomy, dim, without light, gloomy, somber
 * 2) * Elin Pelin, "La Nimfo", tr. by Th. Kaneff in 2004, 7.
 * Elua okuli semblis obskura en la vesperala krepuskulo.
 * Her eyes seemed dark in the evening twilight.