tonton

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.tɔ̃/

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tonton m (plural tontons)

1. (childish) uncle

   Synonym: (formal) oncle

2. (police slang) snitch, informer

• tata
• maman
• papa

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

From French tonton.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

tonton

1. uncle

   Synonym: nonk

2. old man

• tonton makout

tonton

1. huge
2. large, big

Inherited from Malay tonton, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tonton).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtonton/ [ˈt̪on̪.t̪ɔn]
• Rhymes: -onton
• Syllabification: ton‧ton

tonton (active menonton, or, colloquially nonton, passive ditonton)

1. to see, to watch

• “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

tonton

1. Rōmaji transcription of とんとん

tonton

1. romanization of ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀

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.

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

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?

• > Indonesian: tonton (inherited)

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

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

From French tonton.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

tonton

1. uncle

   Synonyms: chacha, mama

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

tonton

1. performance, show
2. actor

Probably from Kongo ntóoto, Yombe thoóto, Beembe tótò ("ripe banana")^[1] and possibly Ngangam tõ (“to pound”), Northern Toussian toŋ (“to pound”).^[2] Compare English tum-tum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtontoŋ/, /ˈtonton/, [ˈtʊ̞ntʊ̞̃ŋ], [ˈtɔ̝ntɔ̝ŋ]

tonton

1. dumpling made from mashed plantain
2. synonym of edetonton (“brain”)

• → Dutch: tomtom

Borrowed from French tonton.

• IPA^(key): [tonton]
• Hyphenation: ton‧ton

tonton

1. (informal, endearing, of a person) cute, lovely, pleasant (generally said of elders)

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