tôn

• tûon

From Proto-Turkic *tōn.

• IPA^(key): [toːn], [tu̞ːn]

tôn (definite accusative tônı, plural tônlar)

1. shirt

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC
• https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lxforms.php?lx=klj

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ton˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [toŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [toŋ˧˧]
• Homophone: Tôn

Sino-Vietnamese word from 尊

tôn

1. to revere, to respect, to honor

   tôn làm thầy ― to honor as teacher

2. (by extension) to strengthen and heighten

   tôn nền ― to strengthen and heighten the foundation

3. (by extension) to accentuate

   Màu áo đen càng tôn thêm nước da trắng. ― The upper garment's black color accentuates the [wearer's] white skin

From etymology 1.

tôn

1. (only in compounds) revered, venerable
   • 2006 [1889], Đỗ Mộng Khương, transl., edited by Hoa Bằng, Đại Nam Liệt Truyện [Arrayed Accounts of Đại Nam], translation of original in Literary Chinese:

     Cúi xin nhận lấy danh hiệu tôn quý, hưởng nhiều Phước to lâu dài.

     [I] bow down and beg [You] to accept this venerably precious title, [and may Ye] enjoy plenty of great Blessings for evermore.

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 宗 (“lineage, ancestry, ancestor, clan”, SV: tông).

Possibly arose from the taboo on the personal name "Nguyễn Phúc Miên Tông" (Hán tự: 阮福綿宗) of Emperor Thiệu Trị.^[1]

tôn

1. (only in compounds) alternative form of tông

   tôn giáo ― religion

   tôn chỉ ― main objective, purpose; mission

   tôn đường ― synonym of tông đường

   tôn tộc ― synonym of tông tộc

   Lê Thánh Tôn ― Alternative form of Lê Thánh Tông

   Hồ Tôn Hiến ― Alternative form of Hồ Tông Hiến

   Tôn Thất ― a surname

   Tôn Nữ ― a surname

Borrowed from French tôle.

(classifier miếng) tôn

1. sheet metal

tôn

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 孫

From Middle Welsh ton, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus. Doublet of tiwn.

• IPA^(key): /toːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

tôn f (plural tonau)

1. tone, sound

   Synonym: sain

2. tune, melody

   Synonyms: tiwn, alaw

• perdon (“tune, melody”)
• tôn gron
• tonaidd
• tonedd
• tôn-fyddar

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tôn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies