kris
See also: Kris and křis
English
![](Images/wiktionary/Kris_bali.jpg.webp)
An Indonesian kris
Alternative forms
- crease, creese, creeze, cris, criss, keris, kreese, kriss
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Noun
kris (plural krises or krisses)
- 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.
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- 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)
- (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.
- 1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100:
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/
- Hyphenation: kris
- Rhymes: -ɪs
- Homophone: Chris
Noun
kris f or m (plural krissen)
- kris (Indonesian or Malay with a wavy blade)
Romani
Etymology
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσι (krísi, “judgement, decision”).[1]
Noun
kris f (nominative plural krisa)
- (law) trial[2]
References
- 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
- 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] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 206ab
Further reading
- Mozes F. Heinschink; Michael Teichmann (November 2002), “Kris”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, Wien, archived from the original on 2021-08-19, retrieved 25 August 2021
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krîːs/
Noun
krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)
- 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
Audio (file)
Noun
kris c
- crisis (unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs)
Declension
Declension of kris | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kris | krisen | kriser | kriserna |
Genitive | kris | krisens | krisers | krisernas |
Related terms
- krishantering
- krisinformation
- krisläge
- regeringskris
Further reading
- kris in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
- riks-, risk, skri