kris
English
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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.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) To prank.
See also
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[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)
Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]kris
- Romanization of ꦏꦿꦶꦱ꧀.
Old Javanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]*ris + ka- (“formative for abstract nouns of quality”)
Noun
[edit]kris
- kris (a dagger)
Derived terms
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[edit]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]Declension of kris
Swedish
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Noun
[edit]kris c
- (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)]
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- kris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- kris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- kris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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