different between kristina vs kris

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