saké

Alternative forms

• sake
• saki

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”), where the final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent in other senses of sake, as well as to differentiate it. Likely influenced by French saké.

Pronunciation

• enPR: säkĕ, IPA^(key): /sɑːkɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːkɛ
• enPR: säkē, IPA^(key): /sɑːki/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːki

Noun

saké (countable and uncountable, plural sakés)

1. Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.

Anagrams

• Kase, akes, aske, keas, kesa, seak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ke/

Noun

saké m (plural sakés)

1. sake, rice wine.

Further reading

• “saké” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).