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▪ (Via Pers čandal?) ultimately from Skr čandana-m ‘the sandalwood tree’.
▪ (Rolland2014a:) ¹ṣandal ‘sandal wood’ is likely to be the source of ↗ṣaydalī < ^†ṣandalī ‘pharmacist, druggist, apothecary’, orig. prob. *‘seller of sandal powder’ (used for medical and other purposes), cf. OttTu ṣandalānī ‘dealer in sandal wood, druggist and perfumer’ (Redhouse1890).
▪ Some scholars believe that also ↗²ṣandal ‘type of shoe, sandal(s)’ and ↗³ṣandal ‘(freight) barge, lighter; (EgAr) pontoon’ as well as other (now obsolete) values like ^†‘skiff, rowboat’ ultimately derive from ‘sandal wood’.
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▪ 626 ʔUmayyaẗ b. ʔAbī l-Ṣalt: ṣandal ‘tree with fine-smelling wood’ – DHDA.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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▪ Engl sandalwood (1510s), earlier sandell (c1400), saundres (eC14), from oFr sandale, from mLat sandalum, from lGrk sántalon, ultimately from Skr čandana-m ‘the sandalwood tree’, perh. lit. *‘wood for burning incense’, related to candrah ‘shining, glowing’ and cognate with Lat candere ‘to shine, glow’ (cf. Engl candle) – etymonline.
▪ Ge Sandelholz ‘sandal wood’ (C15), from It sandalo, from Ar ṣandal, from Pers čandal, from Skr čandana-m ‘the sandalwood tree’, of unclear Drav origin – Kluge2002 / Lokotsch1927 #1825. || from Ital santalo, mLat santalum, from Grk sántalon, Ar ṣandal, from Skr čandana – DWDS.
▪ Tu sandal ‘sandal wood’: (<1421?) Yadigâr-ı İbni Şerif: »sandal ve akakyā ve kızıl gül ve inebü’s-saleb«, from Skr čandana – Nişanyan_19Sept2017.
▪ Is Tu sandalî ‘throne’ (Redhouse1890) originally a nisba-adj. coined from Ar ¹ṣandal and thus meaning ‘made of sandalwood’? And should one also put Tu sandalya, sandalye ‘chair’ here? (Earliest attestations: <1377 Erzurumlu Darir, Ḳıṣṣa-i Yūsuf terc.: »sandaluŋ üstinde Yūsuf oturur / bir münādi geldi gavgā getürür«; Ḳıṣṣa-i Yūsuf terc.: »kodılar bir ṣandalī hem ʕūd-ı ḫām / kim otura üzerinde ol ʔimām«; 1574 Hoca Saʕdeddīn Ef., Tācü't-Tevārīḫ: »bir muraṣṣaʕ sandali koydiler« – Nişanyan_26Sept2017, _23Mar2018.) If so one will also have to compare sandalya in the meaning of ‘office, post’ (e.g., sandalya kavgası ‘struggle for a post or position’).

▪ NB: Tu sandal ‘a kind of silk or satin cloth, brocade, sendal’ does not seem to have anything to do with ¹ṣandal ‘sandalwood’; rather, it is from Fr cendal (c1150), from mLat cendalum, prob. (via Ital?) from Lat sindon, ‑onis ‘light, fin tissue, musselin’ – CNRTL. – Cf. Ar ↗sundus.
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For other values attached to the root, see ↗²ṣandal and ↗³ṣandal as well as, for the overall picture, “root” entry ↗√ṢNDL.

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