sentinel

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• /ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl/
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First attested in the 1570s from Middle French sentinelle (“watch or guard kept by a soldier”), from Old Italian sentinella, probably from sentina + -ella, from sentire (“perceive, watch, hear”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive by the senses”). See also sense, sentient.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَارِس (ḥāris) — a sentry or guard
• Arabic: خَفِير (ḵafīr) — a sentry or guard
• Arabic: غَفِير (ḡafīr) — a sentry or guard
• Arabic: غفير (ḡafīr) — a sentry or guard
• Belarusian: вартавы́ (vartavý) — a sentry or guard
• Bulgarian: страж (straž) — a sentry or guard
• Bulgarian: часови́ (časoví) — a sentry or guard
• Bulgarian: часово́й (časovój) — a sentry or guard
• Catalan: sentinella — a sentry or guard
• Chinese Mandarin: 哨兵 (shàobīng) — a sentry or guard
• Chinese Mandarin: 步哨 (bùshào) — a sentry or guard
• Czech: hlídka — a sentry or guard
• Czech: stráž — a sentry or guard
• Danish: skildvagt — a sentry or guard
• Danish: vagtpost — a sentry or guard
• Dutch: wacht — a sentry or guard
• Finnish: vartija — a sentry or guard
• Finnish: vahti — a sentry or guard
• French: factionnaire — a sentry or guard
• French: sentinelle — a sentry or guard
• Galician: sentinela — a sentry or guard
• German: Wache — a sentry or guard
• German: Wachposten — a sentry or guard
• German: Wächter — a sentry or guard
• German: Wächterin — a sentry or guard
• Greek: σκοπός (skopós) — a sentry or guard
• Greek: φρουρός (frourós) — a sentry or guard
• Hindi: प्रहरी (prahrī) — a sentry or guard
• Hungarian: őrszem — a sentry or guard
• Irish: fairtheoir — a sentry or guard
• Italian: sentinella — a sentry or guard
• Japanese: 歩哨 (hoshō) — a sentry or guard
• Japanese: 番兵 (banpei) — a sentry or guard
• Kazakh: күзетші (küzetşı) — a sentry or guard
• Korean: 초병 (chobyeong) — a sentry or guard
• Korean: 보초병 (bochobyeong) — a sentry or guard
• Korean: 감시병 (gamsibyeong) — a sentry or guard
• Northern Kurdish: zêrevan — a sentry or guard
• Northern Kurdish: çavdêr — a sentry or guard
• Northern Kurdish: nobetdar — a sentry or guard
• Latin: vigil — a sentry or guard
• Latin: custos — a sentry or guard
• Latin: excubitor — a sentry or guard
• Latin: praeses — a sentry or guard
• Macedonian: стражар (stražar) — a sentry or guard
• Navajo: haʼasídí — a sentry or guard
• Iranian Persian: نِگَهْبان (negahbân) — a sentry or guard
• Iranian Persian: پاسْدار (pâsdâr) — a sentry or guard
• Polish: wartownik — a sentry or guard
• Polish: strażnik — a sentry or guard
• Portuguese: sentinela — a sentry or guard
• Portuguese: vigia — a sentry or guard
• Russian: часово́й (časovój) — a sentry or guard
• Russian: карау́льный (karaúlʹnyj) — a sentry or guard
• Russian: охра́нник (oxránnik) — a sentry or guard
• Russian: страж (straž) — a sentry or guard
• Scottish Gaelic: freiceadan — a sentry or guard
• Serbo-Croatian: стра̀жа̄р — a sentry or guard
• Serbo-Croatian: stràžār — a sentry or guard
• Slovak: hliadka — a sentry or guard
• Slovak: stráž — a sentry or guard
• Slovene: stražar — a sentry or guard
• Spanish: guarda — a sentry or guard
• Spanish: centinela — a sentry or guard
• Swedish: vaktpost — a sentry or guard
• Swedish: skyltvakt — a sentry or guard
• Turkish: gözcü — a sentry or guard
• Turkish: koruyucu — a sentry or guard
• Turkish: nöbetçi — a sentry or guard
• Ottoman Turkish: نوبت (nevbet, nöbet) — a sentry or guard
• Ukrainian: вартови́й (vartovýj) — a sentry or guard
• Welsh: gwarchodwr — a sentry or guard
• Welsh: gwyliwr — a sentry or guard
• Finnish: vahti — a unique phrase of characters
• German: Markierung — a unique phrase of characters
• German: Schlüsselwort — a unique phrase of characters
• Irish: fairtheoir — a unique phrase of characters
• Turkish: sembol — a unique phrase of characters
• Turkish: simge — a unique phrase of characters
• Bulgarian: охранявам (ohranjavam) — To watch over something as a guard
• Danish: stå vagt — To watch over something as a guard
• Finnish: vahtia — To watch over something as a guard
• Finnish: vartioida — To watch over something as a guard
• French: regarder — To watch over something as a guard
• German: bewachen — To watch over something as a guard
• Portuguese: vigiar — To watch over something as a guard
• Ukrainian: охороняти (oxoronjaty) — To watch over something as a guard