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• 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 kriss or krisses, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)

1. (transitive) To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 271:

     This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give her up unless he was forced to do so.

   • 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, no diminutive)

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)
    • → Burmese: ကျိတ်ဓား (kyitdha:)
    • → 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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “kris”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “kris”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• riks-, risk, skri

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