tuan

Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.

tuan (plural tuans)

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

• common wambenger, black-tailed phascogale

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

From Malay tuan.

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.

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

• -naut, Tuna, aunt, naut., tuna

• doa (West Central Bavarian)

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.

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

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.

• 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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtuan/ [ˈt̪u.an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: tu‧an

tuan (plural tuan-tuan or para tuan)

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)

tuan

1. (formal) second person personal pronoun

• “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.

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

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

tuan (Jawi spelling توان, plural tuan-tuan)

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

   Synonym: encik

• > Indonesian: tuan (inherited)
• → English: tuan
• → Hokkien: 緞 / 缎 (toān, “master, mister”)^[1]
• →? Tagalog: tuwan (obsolete)
• → Tausug: tuwan

• "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.

tuan

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

• 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.

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

tuan

1. old (of inanimate objects)