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plural krises or krisses
A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade. quotations examples
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
third-person singular simple present krises, present participle krising or krissing, simple past and past participle krised or krissed
(transitive) To stab with a kris. quotations examples
[...] 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
One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.
2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books