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4-letter words (2 found)

AMOK,MAKO,

3-letter words (7 found)

KAM,KOA,MAK,MOA,OAK,OKA,OMA,

2-letter words (7 found)

AM,KA,KO,MA,MO,OK,OM,

You can make 16 words from amok according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of amok

amok maok aomk oamk moak omak amko mako akmo kamo mkao kmao aokm oakm akom kaom okam koam moka omka mkoa kmoa okma koma

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Definitions and meaning of amok

amok

Alternative forms

  • amuck, amock

Etymology

From Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”). The term first appeared 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, which was translated to English by Henry E. J. Stanley.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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.

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in the phrase run amok.

Derived terms

  • run amok

Descendants

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

Translations

See also

  • berserk

Noun

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.
  2. The act of running amok.

Verb

amok (third-person singular simple present amoks, present participle amoking, simple past and past participle amoked)

  1. Synonym of run amok

References

  • 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[1], London: 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), London: Hakluyt Society, →OCLC

Anagrams

  • Kamo, Moak, Omak, mako, moka

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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

Verb

amok

  1. to run amok

Noun

amok

  1. one who runs amok

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

amok

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

Czech

Etymology

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

Noun

amok m inan

  1. condition of amok behaving

Declension

Danish

Etymology

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

Adjective

amok

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

Usage notes

Exclusively used adverbially in the phrase gå amok.

Derived terms

  • gå amok

Related terms

  • berserkergang

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay amuk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aːˈmɔk/
  • Hyphenation: a‧mok
  • Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

amok n or m (plural amoks)

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

Derived terms

  • amokmaker

Descendants

  • → Danish: amok (or through English amok)

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmok/, [ˈɑ̝mo̞k]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmok
  • Syllabification(key): a‧mok

Noun

amok

  1. amok (one who runs amok)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “amok”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

  • koma, mako, moka

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Adverb

amok

  1. amok

Derived terms

  • gå amok
  • løpe amok

Related terms

  • berserkergang

References

  • “amok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Adverb

amok

  1. amok

Derived terms

  • gå amok

References

  • “amok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk. First attested in the first half of the 20th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.mɔk/
  • Rhymes: -amɔk
  • Syllabification: a‧mok

Noun

amok m inan

  1. amok, frenzy (act of behaving disruptively or uncontrollably)
    Synonym: szał
  2. amok, killing frenzy (act of going on a killing spree)
  3. (colloquial) frenzy, mania (violent derangement)
    Synonyms: mania, obsesja, szajba, szał

Declension

Collocations

References

Further reading

  • amok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • amok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Noun

amok m (Cyrillic spelling амок)

  1. Condition of amok behaving.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay amuk, possibly via English amok.

Noun

amok

  1. amok (out-of-control, frenzied rage)

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in the phrase löpa amok (“run amok”).

References

  • amok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • amok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

  • āmok

Etymology

Borrowed from a Middle Persian source.

Noun

amok ?

  1. art, artifice, craft

Derived terms

  • amokäṣṣe
  • amoktse

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “amok”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 21

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