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sandal

noun
/ˈsændəl/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from चन्दन — “sandalwood”
  2. derived from صَنْدَل
  3. derived from σάνδανον
  4. derived from sandalum
  5. inherited from sandal — “sandalwood”

Definitions

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

  2. To put on sandals.

  3. 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[…]
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

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

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA