kris

See also: Kris and křis

English

An Indonesian kris

Alternative forms

• crease, creese, creeze, crese, cress, cris, criss, crys, cryse, keris, kreese, kriss

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.

Noun

kris (plural krises or krisses)

1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

     Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

Descendants

• → Serbo-Croatian: kris

Verb

kris (third-person singular simple present krises, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)

1. (transitive) To stab with a kris.
   • 1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100:

     [...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.

   • 2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books, →ISBN:

     One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.

See also

• kalis

Anagrams

• Risk, irks, kirs, riks, risk

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦶꦱ꧀ (keris), from Old Javanese kĕris, kris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krɪs/

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• Hyphenation: kris
• Rhymes: -ɪs
• Homophone: Chris

Noun

kris f or m (plural krissen)

1. kris (Indonesian or Malay with a wavy blade)

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσι (krísi, “judgement, decision”).

Noun

kris f (nominative plural krisa)

1. (law) trial

Further reading

• Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2002 November) “Kris”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[1], Wien, archived from the original on 19 August 2021

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krîːs/

Noun

krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)

1. kris

Declension

Declension of kris

	singular	plural
nominative	krȋs	krísovi
genitive	krisa	krisova
dative	krisu	krisovima
accusative	kris	krisove
vocative	krisu	krisovi
locative	krisu	krisovima
instrumental	krisom	krisovima

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

kris c

1. crisis (unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs)

Declension

Declension of kris
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kris	krisen	kriser	kriserna
Genitive	kris	krisens	krisers	krisernas

Derived terms

• identitetskris
• krishantering
• krisinformation
• krisläge
• regeringskris

 

Further reading

• kris in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• riks-, risk, skri