"latah" meaning in Anglais

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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du malais latah."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "latahs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lata"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Lexique en anglais de la psychologie",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959",
          "text": "Latah is a condition occurring in Southeast Asia. Otherwise sane, Latahs compulsively imitate every motion once their attention is attracted by snapping the fingers or calling sharply."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Anthony Burgess, The Devil’s Mode, 1989",
          "text": "It seemed to Sir Edwin that this patient, a young man who had never set foot outside England, was suffering from an ailment known as latah – common enough in the Malay archipelago but hitherto unknown, so far as the clinical records – admittedly not very reliable – could advise, in the temperate clime of northern Europe."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Wen-Shing Tseng, Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Psychiatry, p. 116, 2003",
          "text": "Actually, there is a debate among scholars as to whether the latah condition should be regarded as a culture-related \"mental disorder\" or merely as an \"unusual behavior response\" found in some cultures."
        }
      ],
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        "Latah."
      ],
      "id": "fr-latah-en-noun-mwDJ89Lg",
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        "psychology"
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      "ipa": "\\ˈlɑːtə\\",
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        "(Royaume-Uni)"
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    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en malais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du malais latah."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "latahs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lata"
    }
  ],
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        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Lexique en anglais de la psychologie"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959",
          "text": "Latah is a condition occurring in Southeast Asia. Otherwise sane, Latahs compulsively imitate every motion once their attention is attracted by snapping the fingers or calling sharply."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Anthony Burgess, The Devil’s Mode, 1989",
          "text": "It seemed to Sir Edwin that this patient, a young man who had never set foot outside England, was suffering from an ailment known as latah – common enough in the Malay archipelago but hitherto unknown, so far as the clinical records – admittedly not very reliable – could advise, in the temperate clime of northern Europe."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Wen-Shing Tseng, Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Psychiatry, p. 116, 2003",
          "text": "Actually, there is a debate among scholars as to whether the latah condition should be regarded as a culture-related \"mental disorder\" or merely as an \"unusual behavior response\" found in some cultures."
        }
      ],
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        "Latah."
      ],
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        "psychology"
      ]
    }
  ],
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