tonton

See also: tontón

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔ̃.tɔ̃/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

tonton m (plural tontons)

  1. (childish) uncle
    Synonym: (formal) oncle
  2. (police slang) snitch, informer

See also

Further reading

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tonton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

Noun

tonton

  1. uncle
    Synonym: nonk
  2. old man

Derived terms

Adjective

tonton

  1. huge
  2. large, big

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tonton, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tonton).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtonton/ [ˈt̪on̪.t̪ɔn]
  • Rhymes: -onton
  • Syllabification: ton‧ton

Verb

tonton (active menonton, or, colloquially nonton, passive ditonton)

  1. to see, to watch

Derived terms

  • tonton maraton

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

tonton

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とんとん

Javanese

Romanization

tonton

  1. romanization of ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀

Malay

Etymology

Doublet of tuntun by semantic evolution from “to lead, to come along while holding one's hand” > “to flock people to somewhere” > “to watch [a spectacle etc]” also influenced by Javanese ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tonton). See tuntun for more details.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tonton/
  • Rhymes: -onton, -ton, -on

Verb

tonton (Jawi spelling تونتون)

  1. to view; to watch (live and theatrical performances, television, film etc.)
    Synonyms: tuntun (obsolete), tengok
    Mathan tengah tonton apa sekarang?
    What is Mathan watching right now?

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • penonton [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
  • menonton [agent focus] (meN-)
  • ditonton [patient focus] (di-)
  • penontonan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
  • tontonan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
  • pratonton [(from Sanskrit)] (pra-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

  • dipertontonkan
  • rumah tontonan
  • rumah penontonan

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tonton

References

  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “tonton”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 601

Further reading

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tonton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

Noun

tonton

  1. uncle
    Synonyms: chacha, mama

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably from Kongo ntóoto (“ripe banana”),[1] and possibly Ngangam tõ (“to pound”), Northern Toussian toŋ (“to pound”).[2] Compare English tum-tum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtontoŋ/, /ˈtonton/, [ˈtʊ̞ntʊ̞̃ŋ], [ˈtɔ̝ntɔ̝ŋ]

Noun

tonton

  1. dumpling made from mashed plantain
  2. synonym of edetonton (“brain”)

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 458
  2. ^ G. Huttar (1985) “Sources of Ndjuka African vocabulary”, in New West Indian Guide‎[1], →ISSN, page 61

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tonton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tonton]
  • Hyphenation: ton‧ton

Adjective

tonton

  1. (informal, endearing, of a person) cute, lovely, pleasant (generally said of elders)

Synonyms

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