kris

• crease, creese, keris, kreese

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

kris (plural krises or krisses)

1. An Indonesian or Malay dagger with a wavy, or rigid serpentine blade.
2. A Moro sword with an asymmetrical blade.

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.

• kalis

• Risk, irks, kirs, riks, risk

Borrowed from Greek κρίση (krísi, “judgement, decision”).

kris f (plural krisa)

1. law, rule

Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

• IPA^(key): /krîːs/

krȋs m (Cyrillic spelling кри̑с)

1. kris

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kris c

1. crisis (unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs)