kris

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

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

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.

• → Serbo-Croatian: kris

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.

• kalis

• Sirk, risk, riks, irks, kirs, Risk

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

• IPA^(key): /krɪs/

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

kris f or m (plural krissen)

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

kris

1. romanization of ꦏꦿꦶꦱ꧀

*ris +‎ ka- (“formative for abstract nouns of quality”)

kris

1. kris (a dagger)

• > Javanese: ꦏꦼꦫꦶꦱ꧀ (keris), ꦏꦿꦶꦱ꧀ (kris) (inherited)
  • → Malay: keris
    • > Indonesian: keris (inherited)
    • → English: kris, crease, creese, creeze, crese, cress, cris, crise, criss, crys, cryse, keris, kreese, kriss
      • → Serbo-Croatian: kris
    • → Cebuano: kalis
    • → Hiligaynon: kalis
    • → Tagalog: kalis
    • → Tausug: kalis
    • → Thai: กริช (grìt)
  • → Sundanese: ᮊᮨᮛᮤᮞ᮪ (keris)

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

kris f (nominative plural krisa)

1. (law) trial^[2]

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

Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

• IPA^(key): /krîːs/

krȋs m inan (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)

1. kris

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kris c

1. (countable, uncountable) crisis (very bad situation; emergency)

   en finanskris

   a financial crisis

   en personlig kris

   a personal crisis

   medelålderskris

   midlife crisis

   Kom på en gång! Det är kris!

   Come immediately! It's an emergency [crisis]! [could mean something bad is about to happen (unless something is done soon)]

• kris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• riks-, risk, skri