amouco

Portuguese

Etymology

From Malay amuk (“to go on a killing spree”).

Adjective

amouco (feminine amouca, masculine plural amoucos, feminine plural amoucas)

  1. amok (in a frenzy of violence)

Descendants
  • English: amok, amuck, amock
    • → 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
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