sake
See also: Sake, saké, sakė, sakè, 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-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/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
Noun
sake (plural sakes)
- cause, interest or account
- For the sake of argument
- purpose or end; reason
- For old times' sake
- 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 222716698:
- 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, […]
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- (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
- keepsake
- namesake
- sackless
Related terms
- for Christ's sake
- for fuck's sake
- for God's sake
- for goodness' sake
- for heaven's sake
- forsake
- for sake of
- for the sake of
- for the sake of it
- land sakes
- withsake
Translations
cause, interest or account
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purpose or end; reason
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benefit
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contention, strife; guilt
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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/
Audio (file) - 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/, [ˈs̠ɑke̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑke
- Syllabification(key): sa‧ke
Noun
sake
- 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 | |
| Possessive forms of sake (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | sakeni | sakemme |
| 2nd person | sakesi | sakenne |
| 3rd person | sakensa | |
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
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑀓𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- सके (Devanagari script)
- সকে (Bengali script)
- සකෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သကေ or သၵေ (Burmese script)
- สเก or สะเก (Thai script)
- ᩈᨠᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສເກ or ສະເກ (Lao script)
- សកេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄇𑄬 (Chakma script)
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/
Audio (file) - 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
declension of sake (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) sake | sakeul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) sake | sakeului |
| vocative | sakeule | |
Spanish
Etymology
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