different between kris vs tris

English

Alternative forms

• crease, creese, keris, kreese

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

See also

• kalis

Anagrams

• Risk, irks, kirs, riks, risk

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese keris (??????), from Old Javanese ngiris (??????).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?s/
• Hyphenation: kris
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: Chris

Noun

kris f or m (plural krissen)

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

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ?????? (krísis, “judgement, decision”).

Noun

kris f (plural krisa)

1. law, rule

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English kris, creese, from Malay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krî?s/

Noun

kr?s m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. kris

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

kris c

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

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• riks-, risk, skri

English

Alternative forms 1

• tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, tris buffer, THAM
• trometamol, tromethamine (used for drugs)

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: Tris

Noun

tris (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is used as a buffer and emulsifying agent.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: Tris

Noun

tris (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A phosphoric acid ester C₉H₁₅Br₆O₄P formerly used to flameproof clothes and especially children's nightclothes until it was found to cause cancer in animals.

Etymology 3

From tri +? -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophone: tries

Noun

tris

1. plural of tri

References

• “tris”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “tris”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• ISTR, RTIs, Rist, STIR, rits, sirt, stir

French

Pronunciation

Noun

tris m

1. plural of tri

Anagrams

• tirs

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese três. Cognate with Kabuverdianu tres.

Numeral

tris

1. three (3)

Italian

Noun

tris m (invariable)

1. prile
2. (card games, poker) three of a kind
3. trio (three varieties as a unit)

Anagrams

• stri

Old Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r?is/

Adjective

tris

1. third

Inflection

Usually uninflected, but sometimes as an o/?-stem:

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tres
  • Irish: treas

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 tress”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trí?s/

Noun

tr?s m inan

1. (poker) three of a kind

See also

Spanish

Noun

tris m (plural tris)

1. crack (sound)

Derived terms

• en un tris