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別の表記

• crease, creese, creeze, crese, cress, cris, crise, criss, crys, cryse, keris, kreese, kriss

語源

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

名詞

kris (plural krises or krisses)

1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

     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.

派生した語

• → Serbo-Croatian: kris

動詞

kris (third-person singular simple present kriss or krisses, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed)

1. (transitive) To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 271:

     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 her up unless he was forced to do so.

   • 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.

参考

• kalis

アナグラム

• Sirk, risk, riks, irks, kirs, Risk