Tuanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tuan (plural tuans)

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

同意語

• common wambenger, black-tailed phascogale

参照

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

語源 2

From Malay tuan.

名詞

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.

参照

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

アナグラム

• -naut, Tuna, aunt, naut., tuna