kris
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Noun edit
kris (plural krises or krisses)
- 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 edit
- → Serbo-Croatian: kris
Verb edit
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.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦶꦱ꧀ (keris), from Old Javanese kĕris, kris.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kris f or m (plural krissen)
- kris (Indonesian or Malay with a wavy blade)
Romani edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κρίσι (krísi, “judgement, decision”).[1]
Noun edit
kris f (nominative plural krisa)
References edit
- ^ 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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 206ab
Further reading edit
- Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2002 November) “Kris”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[1], Wien, archived from the original on 19 August 2021
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
kris c
- crisis (unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs)
Declension edit
| Declension of kris | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | kris | krisen | kriser | kriserna |
| Genitive | kris | krisens | krisers | krisernas |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- kris in Svensk ordbok.