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tuan

English

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
• Category:Phascogale tapoatafa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Malay tuan.

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtuan/ [ˈt̪u.an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: tu‧an

Noun

tuan (plural tuan-tuan or para tuan)

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

Derived terms

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 of 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)

1. Prince, Princess (title for royal family in kelantan and pattani)
2. master, lord
3. mister (title of adult male)

   Synonym: encik

Derived terms

Descendants

• > Indonesian: tuan (inherited)
• → English: tuan
• → Hokkien: 緞 / 缎 (toān, “master, mister”)
• →? Tagalog: tuwan (obsolete)
• → 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 inanimate objects)