kris
English

An Indonesian kris
Noun
kris (plural krises or krisses)
- An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade.
- A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.
Verb
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.
- 1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100:
See also
Romani
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krîːs/
Declension
Declension of kris
singular | plural | |
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nominative | krȋs | krísovi |
genitive | krisa | krisova |
dative | krisu | krisovima |
accusative | kris | krisove |
vocative | krisu | krisovi |
locative | krisu | krisovima |
instrumental | krisom | krisovima |
Swedish
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Declension
Declension of kris | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | kris | krisen | kriser | kriserna |
Genitive | kris | krisens | krisers | krisernas |
Related terms
- krishantering
- krisinformation
- krisläge
- regeringskris
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