sandal
noun
- type of footwear
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsændəl/
name
Etymology: From Old English sand halh.
- A suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3418).
noun
Etymology: From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.
- A long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast.
verb
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.
- To put on sandals.