sake

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”).

Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sāk, IPA^(key): /ˈseɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

sake (plural sakes)

1. cause, interest or account

2. purpose or end; reason

3. the benefit or regard of someone or something
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.

     But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]

4. (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge

Usage notes

• The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun (see the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of).

• Garner's Modern American Usage notes it is common to write an (unpronounced) apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

1. Alternative spelling of saké

Anagrams

• KEAS, akes, seak, aske, kesa, Kase, Seka, keas

Dutch

Alternative forms

• saké, saki

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.keː/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ke

Noun

sake m (uncountable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

   Hypernyms: rijstbier, rijstwijn

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑke/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝k̟e̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑke
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧ke

Noun

sake

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Declension

Further reading

• “sake”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• eksa-, seka-

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sà.kéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sə̀.céː]

Noun

sàkē m (possessed form sàken)

1. slackness

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 酒(さけ) (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ke/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ké

Noun

sake (plural)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Alternative forms

• saki (nonstandard)

Further reading

• “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

sake

1. Rōmaji transcription of さけ
2. Rōmaji transcription of サケ

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.

Verb

sake

1. to board, to embark, to ride

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.

Noun

sāke f

1. case, matter, affair
2. thing
3. cause, reason

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zaak
• Limburgish: zaak

Further reading

• “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Moore

Etymology

Cognate with Farefare sakɛ

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sà.ke/

Verb

sake

1. to take out
2. to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
3. to answer to a call
4. to succeed, do well

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²saːkə/

Noun

sake m (definite singular saken, indefinite plural sakar, definite plural sakane)

1. saké (Japanese rice wine)

   Hypernyms: risøl, risvin

References

• “sake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

sake

1. inflection of saka (“one's own”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kɛ/
• Rhymes: -akɛ
• Syllabification: sa‧ke

Noun

sake n (indeclinable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Further reading

• sake in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sake in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• saquê, saqué

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French saké.

Noun

sake n (uncountable)

1. sake

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsake/ [ˈsa.ke]
• Rhymes: -ake
• Syllabification: sa‧ke
• Homophone: saque

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Further reading

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• saké

Noun

sake c

1. saké (rice wine)

Declension

References

• sake in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sake in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sake in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)