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From Latin sentīre.

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

  1. to feel
  2. to perceive

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
  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

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.

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)

From English centre.

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

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