sandal

See also: Sandal, sandál, and sandał

English

Three types of sandals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsændəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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)

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

Hyponyms

• flip-flop, jandal, thong

Translations

type of footwear

• Albanian: sandale (sq) f
• American Sign Language: 1@BackFinger-PalmDown-5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown Frontandback 1@BackHand-PalmDown-5@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown, 2@UlnarBackFinger-PalmBack-4@InsideTrunkhigh-PalmDown 2@RadialBackFinger 2@UlnarBackHand 2@RadialBackHand
• Arabic: صَنْدَل m (ṣandal)

  Egyptian Arabic: نعال m (nuʿāl)

  Hijazi Arabic: صَنْدَل m (ṣandal), مَدَاس m (madās)

• Armenian: սանդալ (hy) (sandal)
• Assamese: চেণ্ডেল (sendel)
• Asturian: sandalia f
• Belarusian: санда́ль m (sandálʹ)
• Bulgarian: санда́л m (sandál)
• Catalan: sandàlia (ca) f
• Chickasaw: pas pas, pas pas sholosh
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涼鞋／凉鞋 (zh) (liángxié), 凉鞋 (zh) (liángxié), 草鞋 (zh) (cǎoxié) (straw sandals)

• Czech: sandál m
• Danish: sandal (da) c
• Dutch: sandaal (nl) f
• Egyptian: (ṯbwt f)
• Esperanto: sandalo (eo)
• Estonian: sandaal
• Finnish: sandaali (fi)
• French: sandale (fr) f
• Galician: sandalia f
• Georgian: სანდალი (sandali), ქალამანი (kalamani)
• German: Sandale (de) f
• Greek: σανδάλι (el) n (sandáli), πέδιλο (el) n (pédilo)

  Aeolic: σάμβαλον n (sámbalon)

  Ancient: σάνδαλον n (sándalon), πέδιλον n (pédilon)

• Hausa: sandal
• Hebrew: סַנְדָּל (he) m (sandál)
• Hindi: चप्पल (hi) f (cappal)
• Hungarian: szandál (hu)
• Icelandic: sandali (is) m
• Ido: sandalo (io)
• Irish: cuarán m

  Old Irish: accrann f

• Italian: sandalo (it) m
• Japanese: サンダル (sandaru), 草鞋 (ja) (わらじ, waraji)
• Kannada: ಚಪ್ಪಲಿ (kn) (cappali)
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• Khmer: ស្បែកជើងសង្រែក (sbaek cəəng sɑŋraek)
• Korean: 샌들 (ko) (saendeul), 초혜 (chohye) (straw sandals)
• Lao: ເກີບຊັງດ້ານ (kœ̄p sang dān)
• Latin: crepida f, solea f
• Latvian: sandale f
• Lithuanian: sandalas m
• Malayalam: ചെരുപ്പ് (ml) (ceruppŭ)
• Maltese: sandlija f, karkur m
• Maore Comorian: kabwa class 9/10
• Maori: pārekereke, kuara, korehe, korehe, korehe, pāengaenga
• Marathi: चप्पल (mr) f (cappal)
• Navajo: kégiizh haaztʼiʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandal (no) m

  Nynorsk: sandal m

• Occitan: sandala (oc) f
• Old English: sole f
• Persian: صندل (fa) (sandal)
• Plautdietsch: Sandal f
• Polish: sandał (pl) m
• Portuguese: sandália (pt), chinelo (pt)
• Romanian: sanda (ro) f, sandală (ro) f
• Russian: санда́лия (ru) f (sandálija), босоно́жка (ru) f (bosonóžka) (female, open-toe sandal)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuaran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: санда́ла f

  Roman: sandála (sh) f

• Sicilian: sànnalu m, zòcculu m
• Slovak: sandál m
• Spanish: sandalia (es) f, chala (es) f (Chile), chinela (es) f (Bolivia); (sandal with flat sole and crossed leather straps) chancleta (es) f, caite (es) m (Guatemala, Nicaragua), cutara m (Eastern Cuba), huarache (es) m (Mexico)
• Swahili: kiatu (sw) class 7/8
• Swedish: sandal (sv) c
• Tagalog: sandalyas
• Tajik: шиппак (šippak)
• Thai: รองเท้าแตะ (th) (rɔɔng-táao-dtɛ̀), รองเท้าคีบ (rɔɔng-táao-kîip)
• Turkish: sandalet (tr), sandal (tr)
• Ukrainian: санда́лія f (sandálija), санда́ль m (sandálʹ)
• Urdu: چپل f (cappal)
• Uzbek: shippak (uz), sandal (uz)
• Vietnamese: dép (vi), dép quai hậu
• Welsh: sandal (cy) f, sandalau f pl
• West Frisian: sandaal (fy)
• Zazaki: ğamık m

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)

2. 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

sandalwood — see sandalwood

Etymology 3

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

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

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

Anagrams

• Landas

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Danish

Noun

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

1. a sandal

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandàl m

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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• sandalle, sandelle, sendylle, sendale

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandal

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

Descendants

• English: sandal
• Scots: sandal

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.

Alternative forms

• sandale, sandel, sandell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/

Noun

sandal

1. sandalwood or something made with it

   Synonym: saundres

Descendants

• English: sandal

References

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. a sandal (open shoe)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. a sandal (open shoe)

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Romanian

Noun

sandal m (plural sandali)

1. Alternative form of santal

Declension

Declension of sandal

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sandal	sandalul	(niște) sandali	sandalii
genitive/dative	(unui) sandal	sandalului	(unor) sandali	sandalilor
vocative	sandalule		sandalilor

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Swedish

Noun

sandal c

1. a sandal

Declension

Declension of sandal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sandal	sandals
	definite	sandalen	sandalens
plural	indefinite	sandaler	sandalers
	definite	sandalerna	sandalernas

Anagrams

• landas

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Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: san‧dal
• IPA^(key): /sanˈdal/, [sɐn̪ˈd̪al]

Noun

sandál

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)

Derived terms

• isandal
• magsandalan
• mapasandal
• pagkakasandal
• pagsandal
• pasandal
• pasandalin
• sandalan
• sumandal

 

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Ternate

Sandal.

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]

Noun

sandal

1. sandal

References

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

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sandal.

Noun

sandal

1. sandals

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Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. boat (water craft)

Etymology 2

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French sandale.

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

1. sandal

Synonyms

• sandalet

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	sandal
Definite accusative	sandalı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sandal	sandallar
Definite accusative	sandalı	sandalları
Dative	sandala	sandallara
Locative	sandalda	sandallarda
Ablative	sandaldan	sandallardan
Genitive	sandalın	sandalların