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Amok

2 stages from Malay to English.

Today it means in a wild, frenzied, uncontrollable state, as in "running amok"
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Stage 1 of 2
amuk
Malay · medieval
"a murderous frenzy"
describing a state of murderous frenzy
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Stage 2 of 2
amok
English · 1600s-1700s
"in an uncontrollable, frenzied state"
adopted through European colonial contact in Southeast Asia
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