sake

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.

• enPR: sāk, IPA^(key): /ˈseɪk/

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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 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.

• 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.

sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

1. Alternative spelling of saké

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

• saké, saki

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.keː/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧ke

sake m (uncountable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

   Hypernyms: rijstbier, rijstwijn

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

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

sake

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

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 sakein rare
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
abessive		saketta	sakeitta
instructive		—	sakein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative sakeni sakeni accusative nom. sakeni sakeni gen. sakeni genitive sakeni sakejeni sakeini rare partitive sakeani sakejani inessive sakessani sakeissani elative sakestani sakeistani illative sakeeni sakeihini adessive sakellani sakeillani ablative sakeltani sakeiltani allative sakelleni sakeilleni essive sakenani sakeinani translative sakekseni sakeikseni abessive sakettani sakeittani instructive — — comitative — sakeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative sakesi sakesi accusative nom. sakesi sakesi gen. sakesi genitive sakesi sakejesi sakeisi rare partitive sakeasi sakejasi inessive sakessasi sakeissasi elative sakestasi sakeistasi illative sakeesi sakeihisi adessive sakellasi sakeillasi ablative sakeltasi sakeiltasi allative sakellesi sakeillesi essive sakenasi sakeinasi translative sakeksesi sakeiksesi abessive sakettasi sakeittasi instructive — — comitative — sakeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative sakemme sakemme accusative nom. sakemme sakemme gen. sakemme genitive sakemme sakejemme sakeimme rare partitive sakeamme sakejamme inessive sakessamme sakeissamme elative sakestamme sakeistamme illative sakeemme sakeihimme adessive sakellamme sakeillamme ablative sakeltamme sakeiltamme allative sakellemme sakeillemme essive sakenamme sakeinamme translative sakeksemme sakeiksemme abessive sakettamme sakeittamme instructive — — comitative — sakeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative sakenne sakenne accusative nom. sakenne sakenne gen. sakenne genitive sakenne sakejenne sakeinne rare partitive sakeanne sakejanne inessive sakessanne sakeissanne elative sakestanne sakeistanne illative sakeenne sakeihinne adessive sakellanne sakeillanne ablative sakeltanne sakeiltanne allative sakellenne sakeillenne essive sakenanne sakeinanne translative sakeksenne sakeiksenne abessive sakettanne sakeittanne instructive — — comitative — sakeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative sakensa sakensa accusative nom. sakensa sakensa gen. sakensa genitive sakensa sakejensa sakeinsa rare partitive sakeaan sakeansa sakejaan sakejansa inessive sakessaan sakessansa sakeissaan sakeissansa elative sakestaan sakestansa sakeistaan sakeistansa illative sakeensa sakeihinsa adessive sakellaan sakellansa sakeillaan sakeillansa ablative sakeltaan sakeltansa sakeiltaan sakeiltansa allative sakelleen sakellensa sakeilleen sakeillensa essive sakenaan sakenansa sakeinaan sakeinansa translative sakekseen sakeksensa sakeikseen sakeiksensa abessive sakettaan sakettansa sakeittaan sakeittansa instructive — — comitative — sakeineen sakeinensa

• “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

• eksa-, seka-

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

sàkē m (possessed form sàken)

1. slackness

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

• 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)

• saki (nonstandard)

• “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.

sake

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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.

sake

1. to board, to embark, to ride

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

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

Cognate with Farefare sakɛ

IPA^(key): /sà.ke/

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

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

• IPA^(key): /²saːkə/

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

1. saké (Japanese rice wine)

   Hypernyms: risøl, risvin

• “sake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sake

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kɛ/

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• Rhymes: -akɛ
• Syllabification: sa‧ke

sake n (indeclinable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

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

• saquê, saqué

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

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.

Borrowed from French saké.

sake n (uncountable)

1. sake

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

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

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

• “sake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• saké

sake c

1. saké (rice wine)

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