different between rage vs amok

English

Etymology

Old French rage (French: rage), from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger, fury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
3. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
   • convulsed with a rage of grief

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)

     And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

Synonyms

• fury
• ire

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
3. (obsolete) To enrage.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra???/, [?????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekan? (“to pile”) and *rakjan? (“to stretch”).

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to scrape
2. (dated) to shave

   Synonym: barbere

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German r?ken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Dutch raken (Swedish råka is also borrowed from Low German). Probably related ot the previous verb.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
   • 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .

   • 2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People (?ISBN)

     “Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”

Inflection

References

• “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hrag?n?, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to jut, stick out, stand out

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

rage f or m (plural rages)

1. craze, fad, fashion.

Synonyms

• hype, modegril

Derived terms

• Pokémonrage

French

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
   • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.

2. rabies (disease)
   • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.

Derived terms

• enrager
• fou de rage
• faire rage
• rage de dents
• rage au volant
• vert de rage

Further reading

• “rage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gare, garé, géra

German

Verb

rage

1. inflection of ragen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabi?s (“anger, fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

• raige (uncommon)

Noun

rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rad??e]

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• r?get

See also

• urla, mugi, ?ipa, zbiera

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