English Online Dictionary. What means sake? What does sake mean?
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)
- cause, interest or account
- purpose or end; reason
- 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, […]
- (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
- Genesis, 3:17
- And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
- Genesis, 3:17
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 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
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
- Alternative spelling of saké
Anagrams
- KEAS, Kase, akes, aske, keas, kesa, seak
Dutch
Alternative forms
- saké, saki
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaː.keː/
- Hyphenation: sa‧ke
Noun
sake m (uncountable)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
- Hypernyms: rijstbier, rijstwijn
Finnish
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɑke/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝k̟e̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑke
- Syllabification(key): sa‧ke
Noun
sake
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Declension
Anagrams
- eksa-, seka-
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sà.kéː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [sə̀.céː]
Noun
sàkē m (possessed form sàken)
- slackness
Indonesian
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.ke/
- Hyphenation: sa‧ké
Noun
sake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Alternative forms
- saki (nonstandard)
Further reading
- “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
sake
- Rōmaji transcription of さけ
- Rōmaji transcription of サケ
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.
Verb
sake
- to board, to embark, to ride
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.
Noun
sāke f
- case, matter, affair
- thing
- 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
- to take out
- to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
- to answer to a call
- to succeed, do well
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
sake
- inflection of saka (“one's own”):
- masculine/neuter locative singular
- masculine accusative plural
- 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)
- 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
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Noun
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.
Romanian
Etymology
From French saké.
Noun
sake n (uncountable)
- 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)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further reading
- “sake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014