sake

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.

• enPR: sāk, IPA^(key): /seɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

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

• 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.

• keepsake
• namesake
• sackless

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine; any alcoholic drink”), with pronunciation possibly influenced by Okinawan 酒 (saki).

• saké, saki

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

sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

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

• rice wine

• awamori
• shochu

• Kase, akes, aske, keas, kesa, seak

• saké
• saki

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.keː/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧ke

sake m (uncountable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

• rijstbier
• rijstwijn

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

sake

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

• eksa-, seka-

sàkē m (possessed form sàken)

1. slackness

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (さけ, sake, “Japanese rice wine”).

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

sake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)

1. sake, Japanese rice wine.

sake

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

sake

1. To board, to embark, to ride.

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

sāke f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: zaak
• Limburgish: zaak

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

sake

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

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kɛ/

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sake n (indeclinable)

1. sake

• saquê
• saqué

From Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake, Japanese rice wine

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsake/
• Homophone: saque

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake, Japanese rice wine