kris

See also: Kris and křis

English

An Indonesian kris

Alternative forms

• crease, creese, keris, kreese

Etymology

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

Noun

kris (plural krises or krisses)

1. An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid 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.

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

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Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσις (krísis, “judgement, decision”).

Noun

kris f (plural krisa)

1. law, rule

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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

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Swedish

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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

Related terms

• krishantering
• krisinformation
• krisläge
• regeringskris

 

Anagrams

• riks-, risk, skri