sandal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An open shoe held to the foot by straps across the top.

   She wore comfortable sandals on the hot summer day.

2. 2
   verb

   To put on sandals.

   He sandalled his feet before walking out to the pool.

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.

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