tuan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tuan"

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.

Synonyms

• common wambenger, black-tailed phascogale

References

• tuan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phascogale tapoatafa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phascogale tapoatafa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tuan”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Anagrams

• -naut, Tuna, aunt, naut., tuna

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

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

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

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

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tuan (plural)

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

Affixed terms

• bertuan
• bertuankan
• dipertuan
• ketuan-tuanan
• mempertuan
• mempertuankan
• menuani
• menuankan
• pertuanan
• tuan-tuan

 

Compounds

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

 

Further reading

• “tuan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuan/
• (glide-sporadic) IPA^(key): [tu.wan]
• Rhymes: -uan, -wan, -an

Noun

tuan (Jawi spelling توان, plural tuan-tuan, informal 1st possessive tuanku, 2nd possessive tuanmu, 3rd possessive tuannya)

1. Prince, Princess (title for royal family in kelantan and pattani)
2. master, lord
3. mister (title of adult male)

   Synonym: encik

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• ketuanan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• pertuan [causative passive] (peR-)
• bertuan [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tuan
• → Hokkien: 緞 / 缎 (toān, “master, mister”)
• →? Tagalog: tuwan (obsolete)
• → Tausug: tuwan

References

• "tuan" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “tuan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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)