saké

See also: sake, Sake, sakė, and sa kê

English

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækeɪ/, /ˈsɑːkeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ækeɪ, Rhymes: -ɑːkeɪ
• IPA^(key): /ˈsæki/, /ˈsɑːki/
  • Rhymes: -æki, Rhymes: -ɑːki

Noun

saké (countable and uncountable, plural sakés)

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

Translations

Japanese rice wine

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Ainu: サケ (sake)
• Arabic: سَاكِي‎ (ar) m (sākī)
• Armenian: սակե (sake)
• Belarusian: сакэ́ n (saké)
• Bengali: সাকে (sake)
• Bulgarian: саке n (sake)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清酒 (zh) (qīngjiǔ), 日本酒 (zh) (rìběnjiǔ)

• Danish: sake (da) c
• Dutch: sake (nl) m
• Esperanto: sakeo
• Finnish: sake (fi)
• French: saké (fr) m
• Georgian: საკე (saḳe)
• German: Sake (de) m
• Greek: σάκε (el) n (sáke)
• Hebrew: סָאקֶה‎ (he) (sake)
• Hungarian: szaké
• Icelandic: hrísgrjónavín n, sake n
• Ido: sakeo (io)
• Indonesian: sake (id)
• Italian: sakè m
• Japanese: 酒 (ja) (sake), 日本酒 (ja) (nihonshu), 清酒 (ja) (seishu)
• Javanese: sake
• Korean: 일본주(日本酒) (ilbonju), 술 (ko) (sul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sake (ku) f

• Lithuanian: sakė (lt)
• Macedonian: са́ке n (sáke)
• Malay: sake
• Norwegian: sake (no) m
• Okinawan: 大和酒 (yamatujaki)
• Persian: ساکی‎ (fa) (sâki)
• Polish: sake (pl) n
• Portuguese: saqué (pt) m, saquê (pt) m
• Russian: сакэ́ (ru) n (sakɛ́), саке́ (ru) n (sakɛ́)
• Spanish: sake (es)
• Swedish: sake (sv)
• Tagalog: sake
• Thai: สาเก (th) (săa-gay)
• Turkish: sake (tr)
• Ukrainian: саке́ n (saké)
• Vietnamese: sake (vi)

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ke/

• Audio

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Noun

saké m (plural sakés)

1. sake, rice wine

Descendants

• → Romanian: sake n
• → Turkish: sake

Further reading

• “saké”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.