kris
kris noun: a traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
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Noun (1)
kris (plural krises or krisses)
- A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
- 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.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292
Verb
kris (third-person singular simple present kriss or krisses, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)
- To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.
- This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 271
- [...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100
Proper noun capitalized: Kris
Kris
- A diminutive of the female given names Kristina, Kristin, Kristine and related given names (Christina, etc).
- A diminutive of the male given names Christopher, Christian, and related given names.
- Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who was tapped to help Vice President Mike Pence lead the panel, defended the commission in an interview on CNN’s “New Day” Monday.2017 May 15, David Wright, “Kobach: ‘Election integrity’ panel ‘not set up to prove or to disprove’ Trump”, in CNN
Noun (2) capitalized: KRIs
KRIs
- plural of KRI
kris meaning in Tamil, Malay, Indonesian and Thai
kris in Tamil
- கிரிஸ்
kris in Malay
- type of dagger
- keris
kris in Indonesian
- type of dagger
- keris
kris in Thai
- type of dagger
- กริช grìt
Forms of kris
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | krises |
| plural | krisses |
| alternative form | crease |
| alternative form | creese |
| alternative form | creeze |
| alternative form | crese |
| alternative form | cress |
| alternative form | cris |
| alternative form | crise |
| alternative form | criss |
| alternative form | crys |
| alternative form | cryse |
| alternative form | keris |
| alternative form | kreese |
| alternative form | kriss |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kriss |
| third-person singular present | krisses |
| present participle | krising |
| present participle | krissing |
| past participle | krised |
Origin of kris
Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Words formed from kris
Phrases with kris
Questions about kris
- What does kris mean?
- Kris means a traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
- What is kris in Tamil?
- Kris in Tamil is கிரிஸ். See Kris meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is kris?
- Kris can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of kris?
- The plural of kris is krises.
Words near kris in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: kris (page history and authors); Kris (page history and authors); KRIs (page history and authors); kris (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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