sandal
/ˈsændəl/
sandal noun: a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot.

Noun (1)
sandal (plural sandals)
Verb
sandal (third-person singular simple present sandals, present participle (US) sandaling or (UK) sandalling, simple past and past participle (US) sandaled or (UK) sandalled)
- To put on sandals.
Noun (2)
sandal (uncountable)
- 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[…]1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
Noun (3)
sandal (plural sandals)
- A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
Proper noun capitalized: Sandal
Sandal
- A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).
- Synonyms:
- Sandal Magna
sandal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sandal in Hindi
- type of footwear
- चप्पल cappal
sandal in Tamil
- type of footwear
- செருப்பு ceruppu, செப்பல் ceppal
sandal in Marathi
- type of footwear
- चप्पल cappal
sandal in Urdu
- type of footwear
- چپل cappal
More languagesFewer languages
- sandal in Bengali
- গন্ধসার gondhośar
- sandal in Telugu
- చందనము candanamu, పాదుక pāduka
- sandal in Malayalam
- ചെരുപ്പ് ceruppŭ
- sandal in Kannada
- ಚಪ್ಪಲಿ cappali
- sandal in Odia
- ପରାଗ parāga
- sandal in Assamese
- চেণ্ডেল sendel
- sandal in Tagalog
- sandalyas
- sandal in Arabic
- صَنْدَل ṣandal
- sandal in Indonesian
- sandal
- sandal in Persian
- صندل sandal
- sandal in Thai
- รองเท้าแตะ rɔɔng-táao-dtɛ̀, รองเท้าคีบ rɔɔng-táao-kîip
- sandal in Vietnamese
- dép, dép quai hậu
- Kashmiri
- چَپٕنؠ capụn'
Examples of sandal in a sentence
- This morning a bloke stood next to me wearing nothing but sandals.
- She packed her sandals only as an afterthought, but she was glad she did.
- After taking off their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot.
Synonyms of sandal
Forms of sandal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sandals |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sandals |
| present participle US | sandaling |
| present participle UK | sandalling |
| past participle US | sandaled |
| past US | sandaled |
| past participle UK | sandalled |
| past UK | sandalled |
Origin of sandal
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.
Words formed from sandal
Phrases with sandal
Words that rhyme with sandal
- handle
- Randall
- scandal
- candle
- dandle
- grab handle
- Randle
- bandle
- behandle
- brandle
- crandall
- file handle
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Questions about sandal
- What does sandal mean?
- Sandal means a type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot.
- What is sandal in Hindi?
- Sandal in Hindi is चप्पल (cappal). See Sandal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sandal?
- Sandal can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sandal?
- Sandal is pronounced /ˈsændəl/.
- What is the plural of sandal?
- The plural of sandal is sandals.
Words near sandal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sandal (page history and authors); Sandal (page history and authors); গন্ধসার (Bengali) (page history and authors); చందనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ପରାଗ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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