Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

tuan

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tuan"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

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

References

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.

References

Anagrams

Remove ads

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 [Let's just see]”, 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 [Vienna waits for you]”, 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

More information infinitive, past participle ...

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
Remove ads

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

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

Affixations
Compounds
  • tuan besar
  • tuan hamba
  • tuan kebun
  • tuan tamu
  • tuan tanah
  • tuan toko

Further reading

Malay

Mandarin

Tetum

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads
Remove ads