• IPA: /ˈsændəl/

sandal (plural sandals)

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

• French: sandale
• German: Sandale
• Italian: sandalo
• Portuguese: sandália, chinelo
• Russian: санда́лия
• Spanish: sandalia, chala (Chile), chinela (Bolivia); sandal with flat sole and crossed leather straps chancleta, caite (Guatemala), cutara (Eastern Cuba), huarache (Mexico)

sandal (uncountable)

1. sandalwood
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, prologue:

     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 […]

sandal (plural sandals)

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