sandal
English
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsændəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ændəl
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
sandal (plural sandals)
Translations
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Etymology 2
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.
Noun
sandal (uncountable)
- 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 […]
Translations
Etymology 3
Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
sandal c (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalerne)
- a sandal
Hausa
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/, /ˈsɛndəl/
References
- “sandal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
Etymology 2
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/
Descendants
- English: sandal
References
- “sandal(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Romanian
Declension
Swedish
Declension
Declension of sandal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sandal | sandalen | sandaler | sandalerna |
Genitive | sandals | sandalens | sandalers | sandalernas |
Anagrams
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay sandar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sandəʀ (“lean on or against”). Doublet of salig and sandig. See also sunday.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: san‧dal
- IPA(key): /sanˈdal/, [sɐnˈdal]
Noun
sandál
Derived terms
- isandal
- magsandalan
- mapasandal
- pagkakasandal
- pagsandal
- pasandal
- pasandalin
- sandalan
- sumandal
Ternate

Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian sandal, from Dutch sandaal, from Middle French sandale, from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sanˈdal]
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29
Turkish
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).
Noun
sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)
- a small tropical tree of the Santalaceae family, Santalum album