amok

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “It is true, I […] might have run “amok” against society; but I preferred that society should run “amok” against me, it being the desperate party.”

3. isim 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.

   “One morning, as we were sitting at breakfast, Mr. Carter's servant informed us that there was an "Amok" in the village--in other words, that a man was "running a muck."”

4. isim The act of running amok.

   “On the morning of the amok this person met him, and asked him to work at his boat “He replied that he could not, he was very much afflicted.”[…]The amok took place on the 8th, the trial on the 13th, and the execution on the 15th July,—all within eight days.”

5. fiil Synonym of run amok.

   “The Rájá not listening to this language, again tried to kill Gumpar with a spear, and all his people assisted in thrusting and cutting at him; there was a great hubbub, and people outside of the fort were astonished to learn that there was amoking within it.”

6. isim A kind of Southeast Asian curry steamed in banana leaves native to Cambodia.