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Kalis
Sign in to saveA kalis (Baybayin: ; Jawi script: كاليس ;Abecedario: cális) is a type of Philippine sword derived from the wider Southeast Asian, originally Javanese keris, better known as kris. It differs in that the Philippine kris or kalis tends to be a sword, not a dagger, and thus often called a "kris sword".
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Physical description
- Blade
- Guard (gangya)
- Hilt
- Scabbard
- Variants
- In media
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
A kalis (Baybayin: ; Jawi script: كاليس ;Abecedario: cális) is a type of Philippine sword derived from the wider Southeast Asian, originally Javanese keris, better known as kris. It differs in that the Philippine kris or kalis tends to be a sword, not a dagger, and thus often called a "kris sword".
Like the keris, the kalis has a double-edged blade, which is commonly straight from the tip but wavy near the handle. Kalis exists in several variants, either with a fully straight or fully wavy blade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kalis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.