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kris
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Noun
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
- → Serbo-Croatian: kris
Verb
kris (third-person singular simple present kriss or krisses, 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.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦼꦫꦶꦱ꧀ (keris), from Old Javanese kĕris, kris.
Pronunciation
Noun
kris f or m (plural krissen, no diminutive)
- kris (Indonesian or Malay with a wavy blade)
Javanese
Romanization
kris
- romanization of ꦏꦿꦶꦱ꧀
Old Javanese
Etymology
*ris + ka- (“formative for abstract nouns of quality”)
Noun
kris
- kris (a dagger)
Derived terms
- akris
- aṅris
- kinris
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