Ido

Adjective

obskura

1. (of colours) dark, not light
   • 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.

2. obscure, not evident, hidden
   • 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.)

3. dark, gloomy, dim, without light
   • 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.