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6-letter words (2 found)

ALANDS,SANDAL,

5-letter words (10 found)

ALAND,ALANS,ANLAS,DAALS,LANAS,LANDS,NADAS,NALAS,NASAL,SALAD,

4-letter words (17 found)

AALS,ALAN,ALAS,ANAL,ANAS,ANDS,ANSA,DAAL,DALS,DANS,LADS,LANA,LAND,NADA,NADS,NALA,SAND,

3-letter words (17 found)

AAL,AAS,ADS,ALA,ALS,ANA,AND,ANS,DAL,DAN,DAS,LAD,LAS,NAS,SAD,SAL,SAN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AD,AL,AN,AS,DA,LA,NA,

You can make 54 words from sandal according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sandal

sandal

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsændəl/
  • Rhymes: -ændəl

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

  1. A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
Hyponyms
  • flip-flop, jandal, thong
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

sandal (uncountable)

  2. sandalwood
Translations

Etymology 3

Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), the same word as the shoe sandal, just applied for boats of the shape of this shoe.

Noun

sandal (plural sandals)

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

Anagrams

  • Landas

Danish

Noun

sandal c (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalerne)

  1. a sandal

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sán.dàl/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [sán.dàl]

Noun

sandàl m

  1. sandal(s) (footwear)
  2. sandalwood
  3. perfume derived from sandalwood

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Alternative forms

  • sandalle, sandelle, sendylle, sendale

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/, /ˈsɛndəl/

Noun

sandal

  1. sandal, thong, slip-on
  2. episcopal sandal, papal slipper
Descendants
  • English: sandal
  • Scots: sandal
References
  • “sandal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 2

Borrowed 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 saundres.

Alternative forms

  • sandale, sandel, sandell

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsandal/, /ˈsandəl/

Noun

sandal

  1. sandalwood or something made with it
    Synonym: saundres
Descendants
  • English: sandal
References
  • “sandal(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandaler, definite plural sandalene)

  1. a sandal (open shoe)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sandal m (definite singular sandalen, indefinite plural sandalar, definite plural sandalane)

  1. a sandal (open shoe)

Romanian

Noun

sandal m (plural sandali)

  1. Alternative form of santal

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sandale, from Ancient Greek σάνδαλον (sándalon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sanˈdɑːl/

Noun

sandal c

  1. a sandal

Declension

Further reading

  • sandal in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
  • sandal in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • landas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay sandar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sandəʀ (“lean on or against”). Doublet of salig and sandig. See also sunday.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sanˈdal/, [sɐnˈdal]
  • Hyphenation: san‧dal

Noun

sandál (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜇᜎ᜔)

  1. leaning of one's back (on something)
    Synonym: pagsandal
  2. leaning position; reclining position (on something)
    Synonym: pagkakasandal
  3. something placed in a reclining or leaning position against something
  4. (figurative) dependence; reliance (on someone for support)

Derived terms

Ternate

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian sandal, from Dutch sandaal, from Middle French sandale, from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sanˈdal]

Noun

sandal

  1. sandal

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sandal.

Noun

sandal

  1. sandals

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

  1. boat (water craft)

Etymology 2

From Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

  1. a small tropical tree of the Santalaceae family, Santalum album

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French sandale.

Noun

sandal (definite accusative sandalı, plural sandallar)

  1. sandal
Synonyms
  • sandalet

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org