amok

• amuck, amock

From Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

The term first popped up in English around the 16th century, associated with the people of Malaysia and Java, first described in the 1516 text "The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants", which was translated to English by Stanley.

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɒk/, /əˈmʌk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk

amok (comparative more amok, superlative most amok)

1. Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
2. In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Almost exclusively used in the phrase run amok.

• run amok

• → Cebuano: amok
• → Czech: amok
• → Danish: amok (or directly from Dutch amok)
• → Finnish: amok
• → German: Amok
• → Hebrew: אמוק‎ (ámok)
• → Norwegian: amok
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: амок
  • Latin: amok
• → Swedish: amok

amok (plural amoks)

1. One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.

• https://kbbi.web.id/amuk
• Duarte Barbosa, Mansel Longworth Dames, (1518) "The book of Duarte Barbosa: an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants", Asian Educational Services, 1989, →ISBN
• Stanley, Henry E. J. ed. and trans. (1866) A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar by Duarte Barbosa‎, Hakluyt Society
• Dames, Mansel Longworth (1918–1921) The book of Duarte Barbosa : an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants (2 Volumes), Hakluyt Society, OCLC 3640216

• Kamo, Moak, Omak, mako, moka

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”). Displaced amog.

amok

1. to run amok

amok

1. one who runs amok

Unknown.

amok

1. a surf; waves that break on an ocean shoreline

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok m

1. Condition of amok behaving.

From English amok or from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok

1. Out of control, especially when armed and dangerous.
2. In a frenzy of violence, or on a killing spree; berserk.

Almost exclusively used in the phrase gå amok.

• gå amok

• berserkergang

Borrowed from Malay amuk.

• IPA^(key): /aːˈmɔk/

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• Hyphenation: a‧mok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

amok n (uncountable)

1. (historical) A murderous frenzy, a killing spree in Malay culture.
2. (historical) One who runs amok, someone who is on such a killing spree.
3. uproar, riot, noise

• → Danish: amok (or through English amok)
• → English: amok
  • → Cebuano: amok
  • → Czech: amok
  • → Danish: amok (or directly from Dutch amok)
  • → Finnish: amok
  • → German: Amok
  • → Hebrew: אמוק‎ (ámok)
  • → Norwegian: amok
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: амок
    • Latin: amok
  • → Swedish: amok

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok

1. amok (one who runs amok)

• amokjuoksija
• amokjuoksu

• koma, moka

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok

1. amok

• gå amok
• løpe amok

• berserkergang

• “amok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok

1. amok

• gå amok

• “amok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

amok m (Cyrillic spelling амок)

1. Condition of amok behaving.

Borrowed from a Middle Persian source.

amok

1. art, artifice, craft

• amokӓşşe
• amok(ӓts)tse

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN