tuwan

See also: tuwən

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• touan, tovan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Malay tuan (“master; lord; mister”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatuan (“deity”). Compare Tausug Tuwan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈan/ [ˈt̪wan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: tu‧wan

Noun

tuwán (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜏᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

1. polite term of address: mister; madam; honorable person

   Ay parini ka tuwan.

   Oh come here, good sir.

   Pasasaan kayo, mga tuwan?

   Where would all of you be going, you respectable people?

Usage notes

• Only used when greeting unknown strangers.

Derived terms

• matuwan
• tuwanin

 

See also

• Gat
• ginoo
• maginoo
• mamsir
• pamagat
• uhoy
• uya

 

Further reading

• “tuwan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 356: “Hombre) Tovan (pc) llamandole”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qatuan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI