tuan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tuan"

English

Noun

tuan (plural tuans)

  1. The brush-tailed phascogale, Phascogale tapoatafa.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tuan.

Noun

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

  1. mister (title of adult male)

Malay

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tuan/
  • Rhymes: -uan, -wan, -an

Noun

tuan (Jawi spelling توان)

  1. mister (title of adult male)

Synonyms

Derived terms
Affixed terms and other derivations

Affixed derivations:

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

Descendants

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
  • 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.
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