sandal
/ˈsændəl/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms sandals sandaling sandalling sandaled sandalled
- noun (footwear) A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
- verb To put on sandals.
- noun sandalwood
- noun A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
- proper noun A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).
Synonyms
Etymology
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.
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.
From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.
From Old English sand halh.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Same as Sendal.
- noun Sandalwood. "Fans of sandal." Tennyson.
Etymology [F. sandale, L. sandalium, Gr. sandal.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sandal”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details