sake
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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:
- 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, […]
- (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.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
- art for art's sake
- for any sake
- for Christ's sake
- for cripes' sake
- for cripes sake
- for fuck's sake
- for fudge's sake
- for Goddess's sake
- for God's sake
- for goodness' sake
- for gosh sake
- for heaven's sake
- for land's sake
- for land's sake alive
- for mercy's sake
- for name's sake
- for old sake's sake
- for old times' sake
- for old time's sake
- for Pete's sake
- for pity's sake
- forsake
- for sake of
- for shame's sake
- for the land's sake
- for the land's sake alive
- for the sake of
- for the sake of it
- for very shame's sake
- keepsake
- land sake
- land sake alive
- land sakes
- land's sake
- land's sake alive
- namesake
- name-sake
- sackless
- sake and soke
- withsake
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
- Alternative spelling of saké
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake m (uncountable)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Declension edit
Inflection of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | saketta | sakeitta | ||
instructive | — | sakein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “sake”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
Hausa edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sàkē m (possessed form sàken)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Alternative forms edit
- saki (nonstandard)
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Romanization edit
sake
Kapampangan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.
Verb edit
sake
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.
Noun edit
sāke f
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Moore edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sake
- to take out
- to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
- to answer to a call
- to succeed, do well
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake m (definite singular saken, indefinite plural sakar, definite plural sakane)
References edit
- “sake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
sake
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake n (indeclinable)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sake n (uncountable)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further reading edit
- “sake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
sake c
- saké (rice wine)
Declension edit
Declension of sake | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | sake | saken | — | — |
Genitive | sakes | sakens | — | — |