Indeed yarb, and puan is the feminine equivalent. A list of honorifics, anyone?
Any similarity between the Malay word and its use in Australia are probably pure coincidence. As they say, given an infinite number of number of monkeys (well, phascogales in this case) and an infinite number of typewriters ...
Indeed yarb, and puan is the feminine equivalent. A list of honorifics, anyone?
Any similarity between the Malay word and its use in Australia are probably pure coincidence. As they say, given an infinite number of number of monkeys (well, phascogales in this case) and an infinite number of typewriters ...
According to Conrad, a Malay honorific. The epnoymous "Lord Jim" is called "Tuan Jim" by his adoptive villagers.
Another name for phascogale.