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Yes. The word tuan is a Scrabble US word. The word tuan is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

AUNT,TUAN,TUNA,

3-letter words (7 found)

ANT,NAT,NUT,TAN,TAU,TUN,UTA,

2-letter words (7 found)

AN,AT,NA,NU,TA,UN,UT,

You can make 17 words from tuan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tuan

tuan utan taun atun uatn autn tuna utna tnua ntua unta nuta tanu atnu tnau ntau antu natu uant aunt unat nuat anut naut

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Definitions and meaning of tuan

tuan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

  1. A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
Synonyms
  • common wambenger, black-tailed phascogale

References

  • tuan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Phascogale tapoatafa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Phascogale tapoatafa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Malay.

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

  1. (obsolete, South Asia) Lord; master.

References

  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tuan”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Anagrams

  • -naut, Tuna, aunt, naut., tuna

Bavarian

Alternative forms

  • doa (West Central Bavarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German tuon, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t. Cognates include German tun, Dutch doen and Luxembourgish doen.

Pronunciation

  • (Vienna) IPA(key): /ˈd̥uɐ̯n/
  • Hyphenation: tuan

Verb

tuan (past participle tån) (East Central Bavarian)

  1. to do

Conjugation

References

  • Maria Hornung, Sigmar Grüner (2002) “duan”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT
  • Petr Šubrt (2010) Wiener dialekt (master thesis), Masaryk University, page 89

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tuan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatuan (“deity”). Doublet of tuhan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtuan]
  • Hyphenation: tu‧an

Noun

tuan (plural para tuan, tuan-tuan, first-person possessive tuanku, second-person possessive tuanmu, third-person possessive tuannya)

  1. master, lord.
    1. someone who has control over something or someone.
      Antonyms: hamba, abdi, budak
    2. someone who employs others.
      Synonyms: kepala, majikan, pemilik
  2. mister (title of adult male)

Pronoun

tuan

  1. (formal) second person personal pronoun

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

  • “tuan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatuan (“deity”). Doublet of tuhan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuan/
  • (glide-sporadic) IPA(key): [tu.wan]
  • Rhymes: -uan, -wan, -an

Noun

tuan (Jawi spelling توان, plural tuan-tuan, informal 1st possessive tuanku, 2nd possessive tuanmu, 3rd possessive tuannya)

  1. master, lord
  2. mister (title of adult male)
    Synonym: encik

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tuan
  • → Min Nan: 緞／缎 (toān, “master, mister”)
  • → Tausug: tuwan

References

  • "tuan" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
  • “tuan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

tuan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tuān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of tuán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tuǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tuàn.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)tuqah, compare Malay tua.

Adjective

tuan

  1. old (of things)

Source: wiktionary.org