senter

From Latin sentīre.

senter (third-person singular present indicative siante, past participle sentait)

1. to feel
2. to perceive

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛntər/
• Rhymes: -tər, -ər, -r
• Hyphenation: sèn‧têr

From Javanese ꦱꦺꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦂ (sènter, “torch, flashlight”), from Dutch zaklantaarn or Dutch centerlamp.

sèntêr (plural senter-senter)

1. flashlight (US, Canada), torch (UK, Aus, NZ)

   Synonym: lampu senter

   Synonym: lampu picit, lampu suluh, pelita picit (Standard Malay)

2. spotlight

   Synonyms: lampu corong, lampu sorot

Internationalism, borrowed from English centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of sentral.

sèntêr (plural senter-senter)

1. centre

   Synonyms: pusat, tengah, sentral

• “senter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English centre as in centrefire (“a kind of ammunition”). Also claimed in some of the literature to be from centre-breech-loading shotgun, but such a term does not seem to exist. What does exist is a centrefire breechloader, i.e. a breech-loading shotgun that uses centrefire ammunition, and this may have been the kind of gun that Maltese senter originally referred to. Doublet of ċentru.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɛr/

senter m (plural snieter or sentrijiet)

1. shotgun
   • 1976, “L-Aħħar Bidwi F'Wied il-Għasel”, performed by Sammy Bartolo and New Cuorey:

     Raba’ żdingat biss riservat
     Għall-isnieter u għall-klieb
     Tal-kaċċatur żmien il-gamiem.

     Shabby fields reserved only
     To the shotguns and the hounds
     Of the hunter during turtle-dove season.

2. (less common) rifle, gun

   Synonym: xkubetta

From English centre.

senter n (definite singular senteret or sentret, indefinite plural senter or sentre, definite plural sentra or sentrene)

1. a centre (UK) or center (US)

• sentral
• sentrum

• “senter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English centre.

senter n (definite singular senteret, indefinite plural senter, definite plural sentera)

1. a centre (UK) or center (US)

• sentral
• sentrum

• “senter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.