amouco

Galician

Verb

amouco

first-person singular present indicative of amoucar

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmo(w).ku/ [aˈmo(ʊ̯).ku]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmo(w).ko/ [aˈmo(ʊ̯).ko]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈmo(w).ku/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈmow.ku/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈmo.ku/

Hyphenation: a‧mou‧co

Adjective

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

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