kris

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See also: Kris and křis

English

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An Indonesian kris

Alternative forms

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 or Malay 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.
  2. A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.

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.

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

kris f or m (plural krissen)

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

Romani

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Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσι (krísi, “judgement, decision”).[1]

Noun

kris f (nominative plural krisa)

  1. (law) trial[2]

References

  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kris”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 150b
  2. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e kris, -a- ʒ. -a, -en- = i/e krìsi¹#², -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 206ab

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

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
nominative genitive
singular indefinite kris kris
definite krisen krisens
plural indefinite kriser krisers
definite kriserna krisernas

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