sandal

See also: Sandal and sandál

English

Three types of sandals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sændəl/
• Rhymes: -ændəl

Etymology 1

Borrowed 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

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

  Mandarin: 涼鞋 (zh), 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)
• German: Sandale (de) f
• Greek: σανδάλι (el) n (sandáli), πέδιλο (el) n (pédilo)

  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 (sándaru), 草鞋 (わらじ, warají)
• Kannada: ಚಪ್ಪಲಿ (kn) (cappali)
• 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
• Maltese: sandlija f
• Maore Comorian: kabwa class 9/10
• Maori: pārekereke, kuara
• Marathi: चप्पल f (cappala)
• Navajo: kégiizh haaztʼiʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sandal (no) m

  Nynorsk: sandal m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: صندل‎ (fa) (sandal)
• 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

• 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 (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
• Zazaki: ğamık m

Hyponyms

• flip-flop, jandal, thong

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل‎ (ṣandal), from Middle Persian cndl (čandal, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”).

Noun

sandal (uncountable)

2. sandalwood
   • Tennyson

     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).

Noun

sandàl m

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

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• sandalle, sandelle, sendylle, sendale

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

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.

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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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Swedish

Noun

sandal c

1. a sandal

Declension

Declension of sandal
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sandal	sandalen	sandaler	sandalerna
Genitive	sandals	sandalens	sandalers	sandalernas

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Tagalog

Verb

sandal

1. lean

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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