tuan

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.

a tuan (Phascogale tapoatafa)

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

  1. A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
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Etymology 2

From Malay tuan.

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

  1. (obsolete, South Asia) Lord; master.
    • 1975, Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, Sydney: Collins Publishers, published 1988, page 129:
      "It gives you the Tuan touch. You learn to clap your hands to summon your coloured servants, instead of yelling...to drink stengahs, instead of plain whisky, to speak of lunch as tiffin...God help us!" He chuckled deeply.

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Anagrams

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

Verb

tuan (past participle tån) (East Central Bavarian)

  1. to do
    • 2014, “Schau ma mal ”, performed by Wiener Blond:
      Weil vom zu vü tuan, krieg'ma ja ollaweil nua an Zurn.
      Because from doing too much, we'll only get angry.
    • 2015, “Wien wort auf di ”, performed by Granada:
      Hast so vü z'tuan, aber net genug Zeit dafür.
      You have so much to do, but not enough time for it.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuan
infinitive tuan
past participle tån
present past subjunctive
1st person singular tua dadad
2nd person singular tuast dadast
3rd person singular tuat dadad
1st person plural tuan, tan dadadn
2nd person plural tuats dadats
3rd person plural tuan, tan dadadn
imperative
singular tua
plural tuats, tats

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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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:  / (toān, master, mister)
  • ? Tagalog: tuwan (obsolete)
  • Tausug: tuwan

References

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

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)