chancla

From Spanish chancla.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑŋklə/
• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæŋklə/

chancla (plural chanclas)

1. (Latin American culture) A slipper or flip-flop

• clachan

From chanca, from Late Latin zanca, zancha (“a kind of soft Parthian shoe”) from Parthian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃankla/ [ˈt͡ʃãŋ.kla]
• Rhymes: -ankla
• Syllabification: chan‧cla

chancla f (plural chanclas)

1. slipper
2. flip-flop
3. old shoe

• abarca f
• chala
• chancleta f
• huarache m
• sandalia f

• “chancla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024