tuntun

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʊn.tʊn/
  • Rhymes: -tʊn
  • Hyphenation: tún‧tún

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay tuntun, from Javanese ꦠꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦸꦤ꧀ (tuntun, to guide, to lead), from Old Javanese tuntun (rope or string for leading). Doublet of tonton.

Verb

túntún

  1. to guide, to lead
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Minangkabau

Noun

túntún (first-person possessive tuntunku, second-person possessive tuntunmu, third-person possessive tuntunnya)

  1. (dialect) blinker, blindfold
Derived terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

tuntun

  1. Romanization of ꦠꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦸꦤ꧀

Old Javanese

Etymology

Reduplication of tön (desire) (compare to Old Javanese atun (desiring, loving, attached)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tun.tun/
  • Rhymes: -tun
  • Hyphenation: tun‧tun

Noun

tuntun

  1. leading rope or string

Derived terms

Descendants

  • > Javanese: ꦠꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦸꦤ꧀ (tuntun) (inherited)
    • Malay: tuntun
      • > Indonesian: tuntun (inherited)

Further reading

  • "tuntun" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a partial reduplication of tun (to be new). See Itsekiri titọ́n, Olukumi títún, Ifè titɔ̃, Igala titọ. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *-tʊ̃, from Proto-Edekiri *-tʊ̃, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *-tʊ̃. Also see Ayere ɛntɔ

Pronunciation

Noun

tuntun

  1. someone or something that is new

Verb

tuntun

  1. to be new

Adjective

tuntun

  1. new

Derived terms

  • gbó (to be old)