sandal

• IPA^(key): /ˈsændəl/

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• Rhymes: -ændəl

From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.

sandal (plural sandals)

1. A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

• flip-flop, jandal, thong

From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of santalum.

sandal (uncountable)

1. sandalwood
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries […]

Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.

sandal (plural sandals)

1. A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.

• Landas

sandal c (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalerne)

1. a sandal

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

• IPA^(key): /sán.dàl/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sán.dàl]

sandàl m

1. sandal(s) (footwear)
2. sandalwood
3. perfume derived from sandalwood

From Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

• sandalle, sandelle, sendylle, sendale

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/, /ˈsɛndəl/

sandal

1. sandal, thong, slip-on
2. episcopal sandal, papal slipper

• English: sandal
• Scots: sandal

• “sandal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”). Doublet of saundres.

• sandale, sandel, sandell

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/

sandal

1. sandalwood or something made with it

   Synonym: saundres

• English: sandal

• “sandal(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalene)

1. a sandal (open shoe)

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandalar, definite plural sandalane)

1. a sandal (open shoe)

sandal m (plural sandali)

1. Alternative form of santal

Borrowed from French sandale, from Ancient Greek σάνδαλον (sándalon).

• IPA^(key): /sanˈdɑːl/

sandal c

1. a sandal

• sandal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• sandal in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• landas

Borrowed from Malay sandar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sandəʀ (“lean on or against”). Doublet of salig and sandig. See also sunday.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sanˈdal/ [sɐnˈdal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: san‧dal

sandál (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜇᜎ᜔)

1. leaning of one's back (on something)

   Synonym: pagsandal

2. leaning position; reclining position (on something)

   Synonym: pagkakasandal

3. something placed in a reclining or leaning position against something
4. (figurative) dependence; reliance (on someone for support)

Borrowed from Indonesian sandal, from Dutch sandaal, from Middle French sandale, from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

• IPA^(key): [sanˈdal]

sandal

1. sandal

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

From English sandal.

sandal

1. sandals

From Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. boat (water craft)

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. a small tropical tree of the Santalaceae family, Santalum album

Borrowed from French sandale.

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. sandal

• sandalet