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kris

See also: Kris, and křis

English

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An Indonesian kris

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.

Descendants

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  • → Serbo-Croatian: kris

Verb

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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.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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kris f or m (plural krissen)

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

Javanese

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Romanization

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kris

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦿꦶꦱ꧀.

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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

Noun

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kris

  1. kris (a dagger)

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Romani

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Etymology

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

Noun

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kris f (nominative plural krisa)

  1. (law) trial[2]

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)

  1. kris

Declension

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Declension of kris
singular plural
nominative krȋs krísovi
genitive krisa krisova
dative krisu krisovima
accusative kris krisove
vocative krisu krisovi
locative krisu krisovima
instrumental krisom krisovima

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Noun

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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)]

Declension

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Declension of kris
nominative genitive
singular indefinite kris kris
definite krisen krisens
plural indefinite kriser krisers
definite kriserna krisernas

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