tonton

See also: tontón

Betawi

Alternative forms

• tongton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔntɔn/

Verb

tonton (active nonton, passive ditonton)

1. to watch (a show or spectacle)
2. to observe

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.tɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

tonton m (plural tontons)

1. (childish) uncle

   Synonym: (formal) oncle

2. (police slang) snitch, informer

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: tonton

See also

• tata
• maman
• papa

Further reading

• “tonton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tonton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

Noun

tonton

1. uncle

   Synonym: nonk

2. old man

Derived terms

• tonton makout

Adjective

tonton

1. huge
2. large, big

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 193

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

• kepenontonan
• mempertontonkan
• menonton
• menontonkan
• penonton
• tontonan

• tonton maraton

Further reading

• “tonton”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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): /ˈtonton/ [ˈt̪on̪.t̪on]
• Rhymes: -onton, -ton, -on
• Hyphenation: ton‧ton

Verb

tonton (Jawi spelling تونتون, active menonton, third-person passive ditonton)

1. to watch (performances, television, etc.)

   Synonym: tengok

   Mathan tengah tonton apa sekarang?

   What is Mathan watching right now?

Derived terms

Affixations

• mempertontonkan
• penonton
• penontonan
• pratonton
• tontonan

Compounds

• rumah penontonan
• rumah tontonan

Descendants

• > Indonesian: tonton (inherited)

References

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

Further reading

• "tonton" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tonton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

Noun

tonton

1. uncle

   Synonyms: chacha, mama

Old Javanese

Etymology

Reduplication of ton (“to see; to look”)

Noun

tonton

1. performance, show
2. actor

Derived terms

• anonton
• patontonan
• tinonton
• tontonan
• tontonĕn
• tumonton

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably from Kongo ntóoto, Yombe thoóto, Beembe tótò ("ripe banana") and possibly Ngangam tõ (“to pound”), Northern Toussian toŋ (“to pound”). 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

• → Dutch: tomtom

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

• sevimli
• hoş