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sandal¹

  • /ˈsændəl/

Rhymes with -ændəl

Where it comes from

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.

noun sandals

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

verb sandals · sandaling · sandalling · sandaled · sandalled

  1. To put on sandals.

sandal²

  • /ˈsændəl/

Rhymes with -ændəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English sandal (“sandalwood”), from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Medieval 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.

noun

  1. uncountable sandalwood 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[…]

sandal³

  • /ˈsændəl/

Rhymes with -ændəl

Where it comes from

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

noun sandals

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

Sandal⁴

Where it comes from

From Old English sand halh.

proper noun

  1. A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).

    Similar: Sandal Magna

Translations

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noun type of footwear

Españolsandalia, chala, chinela, chancleta, caite, cutara
한국어샌들 saendeul, 초혜 chohye
日本語サンダル sandaru, 草鞋 waraji
中文涼鞋 /凉鞋 liángxié, 草鞋 cǎoxié
हिन्दीचप्पल cappal
Kiswahilikiatu
Portuguêssandália, chinelo
Françaissandale
DeutschSandale
Italianosandalo
Ελληνικάσανδάλι sandáli, πέδιλο pédilo
Românăsanda, sandală
Русскийсанда́лия sandálija, босоно́жка bosonóžka
Tiếng Việtdép, dép quai hậu
العربيةصَنْدَل ṣandal
עבריתסַנְדָּל sandál

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@misc{sandal_2026,
  title = {sandal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sandal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}