Wiktionary

tuan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tuan"

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.

 
a tuan (Phascogale tapoatafa)

Noun edit

tuan (plural tuans)

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

Malay.

Noun edit

tuan (plural tuans)

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

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Bavarian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • doa (West Central Bavarian)

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Verb edit

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 edit

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

References edit

  • 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 edit

 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

tuan

  1. (formal) second person personal pronoun

Affixed terms edit

Compounds edit

Further reading edit

Malay edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

Descendants edit

  • Indonesian: tuan
  • → Min Nan: 緞／缎 (toān, “master, mister”)[1]

References edit

  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 edit

Romanization edit

tuan

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

Usage notes edit

  • 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 edit

Etymology edit

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

Adjective edit

tuan

  1. old (of things)
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