sandalwood

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈsandəlwʊd/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play

From the word sandalwood, a local product, as a reference to Bollywood.

From sandal + wood, the first component being 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”).

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صَنْدَل (ṣandal) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Armenian: ճանդան (čandan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Bengali: চন্দন (condon) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Bulgarian: сандалово дърво (sandalovo dǎrvo) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Catalan: sàndal — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Chinese Mandarin: 檀木 (tánmù) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Czech: santal — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Dutch: sandelhout — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Esperanto: santalo — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Estonian: sandlipuu — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Finnish: santelipuu — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• French: santal — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Sandelholz — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Santelholz — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Santalholz — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Greek: σανταλόξυλο (santalóxylo) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Ancient Greek: σάνταλον (sántalon) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Hawaiian: ʻiliahi — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Hebrew: אלמוג (Almog) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Hindi: चन्दन (candan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Hindi: सन्दल (sandal) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Hindi: संदल (sandal) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Indonesian: cendana — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Japanese: 香木 (kōboku) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Kannada: ಚಂದನ (candana) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Kazakh: сандал (sandal) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Korean: 단향 (danhyang) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Lao: ຈັນ (chan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Malayalam: ചന്ദനം (candanaṁ) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Māori: tāiko — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Māori: maire taiki — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Marathi: चंदन (candan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Polish: sandałowiec — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Portuguese: sândalo — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Punjabi: ਚੰਦਨ (candan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Romanian: santal — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Russian: санда́ловое де́рево (sandálovoje dérevo) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Russian: санда́л (sandál) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Russian: чефра́с (čefrás) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Sanskrit: चन्दन (candana) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Serbo-Croatian: сандаловина — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Serbo-Croatian: sandalovina — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Slovene: sandalovina — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Spanish: sándalo — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Swahili: msandali — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Swedish: sandel — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Tagalog: apalit — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Telugu: చందనం (candanaṁ) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Thai: จันทน์ (jan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Urdu: چندن (ćandan) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Urdu: صندل (sandal) — any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum
• Arabic: صَنْدَل (ṣandal) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Armenian: ճանդան (čandan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Bengali: চন্দন (condon) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Catalan: sàndal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Chinese Mandarin: 檀香 (tánxiāng) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Czech: santal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Dutch: sandelhout — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Estonian: sandlipuu — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Finnish: santelipuu — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• French: santal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• French: bois de santal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Sandelholz — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Santelholz — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• German: Santalholz — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Greek: σανταλόξυλο (santalóxylo) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Ancient Greek: σάνταλον (sántalon) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Hawaiian: ʻiliahi — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Hebrew: אלמוג (almog) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Hindi: चन्दन (candan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Hindi: सन्दल (sandal) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Indonesian: cendana — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Kannada: ಚಂದನ (candana) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Lao: ຈັນ (chan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Macedonian: сандаловина (sandalovina) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Malayalam: ചന്ദനം (candanaṁ) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Māori: maire taiki — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Māori: tāiko — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Middle English: sandal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Middle English: saundres — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Polish: sandał — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Portuguese: sândalo — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Punjabi: ਚੰਦਨ (candan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Romanian: santal — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Sanskrit: चन्दन (candana) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Serbo-Croatian: сандаловина — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Serbo-Croatian: sandalovina — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Slovene: sandalovina — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Spanish: sándalo — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Swahili: msanduku — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Swahili: sandali — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Swedish: sandel — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Swedish: sandelträ — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Tamil: சந்தனம் (cantaṉam) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Telugu: చందనం (candanaṁ) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Thai: จันทน์ (jan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Tibetan: ཙན་དན (tsan dan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Urdu: چندن (ćandan) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum
• Urdu: صندل (sandal) — the aromatic heartwood of the trees of the genus Santalum