different between prepossessing vs amok

English

Adjective

prepossessing (comparative more prepossessing, superlative most prepossessing)

1. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain

     Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.

   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 2

     These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 3:

     He was a frank, prepossessing fellow, but I saw that he could add nothing to his original account.

2. (archaic) Causing prejudice.

Translations

References

• prepossessing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

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: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants", which was translated to English by Stanley.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?k/, /??m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

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

Almost exclusively used 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: ????? (ámok)
• ? Norwegian: amok
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ????
  • Latin: amok
• ? Swedish: amok

Translations

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], 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

Anagrams

• Kamo, Moak, Omak, mako, moka

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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

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

Noun

amok m

1. Condition of amok behaving.

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

Almost exclusively used in the phrase gå amok.

Derived terms

• gå amok

Related terms

• berserkergang

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay amuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??m?k/
• Hyphenation: a?mok
• Rhymes: -?k

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”).

Noun

amok

1. amok (one who runs amok)

Declension

Derived terms

• amokjuoksija
• amokjuoksu

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

From English amok, from Portuguese amouco, from Malay amuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.m?k/

Noun

amok m inan

1. running amok (act of behaving disruptively or uncontrollably)

   Synonym: sza?

2. running amok (act of going on a killing spree)
3. (colloquial) mania (violent derangement)

   Synonyms: mania, obsesja, szajba, sza?

Declension

Further reading

• amok in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka 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 ????)

1. Condition of amok behaving.

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• ?mok

Etymology

Borrowed from a Middle Persian source.

Noun

amok ?

1. art, artifice, craft

Derived terms

• amokä??e
• 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