tuan

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tuan (plural tuans)

1. The brush-tailed phascogale, Phascogale tapoatafa, endemic to Australia.

• common wambenger, black-tailed mousesack, black-tailed phascogale

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• -naut, Tuna, aunt, naut., tuna

From Middle High German tuon, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn. Cognates include German tun and Luxembourgish doen.

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

tuan

1. (Vienna, transitive) 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 enought 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.

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

tuan (plural tuan-tuan, first-person possessive tuanku, second-person possessive tuanmu, third-person possessive tuannya)

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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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, informal 1st possessive tuanku, 2nd possessive tuanmu, 3rd possessive tuannya)

1. master, lord
2. mister (title of adult male)

   Synonym: encik

• Indonesian: tuan
• → Min Nan: 緞 (toān, “master, mister”)[1]

• "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.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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

tuan

1. old (of things)