# tonton
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔ̃.tɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tonton m (plural tontons)
* (childish) uncle
    Synonym: (formal) oncle
* (police slang) snitch, informer

#### 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: /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

### Noun

tonton
* uncle
    Synonym: nonk
* old man

#### Derived terms

* tonton makout

### Adjective

tonton
* huge
* large, big

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔn.tɔn/
* Rhymes: -tɔn
* Hyphenation: ton‧ton

### Verb

tonton (active menonton, or, colloquially nonton, passive ditonton)
* to see, to watch

#### Derived terms

* kepenontonan
* mempertontonkan
* menonton
* menontonkan
* penonton
* tontonan
* tonton maraton

### Further reading

* “tonton” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

tonton
* Rōmaji transcription of とんとん

## Javanese
### Romanization

tonton
* 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: /tonton/
* Rhymes: -onton, -ton, -on

### Verb

tonton (Jawi spelling تونتون)
* to view; to watch (live and theatrical performances, television, film etc.)
    Synonyms: tuntun (obsolete), tengok
    Mathan tengah tonton apa sekarang?What is Mathan watching right now?

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* penonton [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* menonton [agent focus] (meN-)
* ditonton [patient focus] (di-)
* penontonan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
* tontonan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
* pratonton [(from Sanskrit)] (pra-)
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
* dipertontonkan
* rumah tontonan
* rumah penontonan

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: tonton

### 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 | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French tonton.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔ̃tɔ̃/

### Noun

tonton
* uncle
    Synonyms: chacha, mama

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Probably from Kongo ntóoto (“ripe banana”), and possibly Ngangam tõ (“to pound”), Northern Toussian toŋ (“to pound”). Compare English tum-tum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toˈntoŋ/, /toˈnton/, [tʊ̞̃ˈntʊ̞ŋ], [tɔ̝̃ˈntɔ̝ŋ]

### Noun

tonton
* dumpling made from mashed plantain
* Synonym of edetonton (“brain”)

#### Descendants

* Dutch: tomtom

### References

* ↑ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 458
* ↑ G. Huttar (1985) “Sources of Ndjuka African vocabulary”, in New West Indian Guide‎, →ISSN, page 61

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tonton.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tonton]
* Hyphenation: ton‧ton

### Adjective

tonton
* (informal, endearing, of a person) cute, lovely, pleasant (generally said of elders)

#### Synonyms

* sevimli
* hoş