sake

See also: Sake, saké, sakė, and sa kê

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), 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 (sakjo, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sāk, IPA(key): /seɪk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

sake (plural sakes)

  1. Cause, interest or account.
    For the sake of argument
  2. Purpose or end; reason.
    For old times' sake
  3. The benefit or regard of someone or something.
    • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity‎:
      When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
    • 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.
    • 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.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine; any alcoholic drink”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: säkā, IPA(key): /sɑːkeɪ/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːkeɪ
  • enPR: säkē, IPA(key): /sɑːki/
    • Rhymes: -ɑːki

Noun

sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

  1. (countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
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Anagrams

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake).

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Noun

sake m (uncountable)

  1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Hypernyms

Finnish

Noun

sake

  1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Declension

Inflection of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative sake saket
genitive saken sakejen
partitive sakea sakeja
illative sakeen sakeihin
singular plural
nominative sake saket
accusative nom. sake saket
gen. saken
genitive saken sakejen
sakeinrare
partitive sakea sakeja
inessive sakessa sakeissa
elative sakesta sakeista
illative sakeen sakeihin
adessive sakella sakeilla
ablative sakelta sakeilta
allative sakelle sakeille
essive sakena sakeina
translative sakeksi sakeiksi
instructive — sakein
abessive saketta sakeitta
comitative — sakeineen

Anagrams

Hausa

Noun

sàkē m (possessed form sàken)

  1. slackness

Japanese

Romanization

sake

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

Kapampangan

Verb

sake

  1. To board, to embark, to ride.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-Germanic *sakō.

Noun

sāke f

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈs̪akɛ]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

sake n (indeclinable)

  1. sake

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

  1. sake, Japanese rice wine

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:saquê.

Spanish

Etymology

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsa̠.ke̞]
  • Homophone: saque

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

  1. sake, Japanese rice wine
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