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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
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:
- 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
- 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.
Derived terms
- 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
- fuck'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
Translations
cause, interest or account
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purpose or end; reason
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benefit
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Etymology 2
Noun
sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
- Alternative spelling of saké
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sake m (uncountable)
Finnish
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
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 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. | ||
Further reading
- “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
Anagrams
Hausa
Pronunciation
Noun
sàkē m (possessed form sàken)
Indonesian
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Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
sake
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.
Verb
sake
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.
Noun
sāke f
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Moore
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
sake
- to take out
- to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
- to answer to a call
- to succeed, do well
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sake m (definite singular saken, indefinite plural sakar, definite plural sakane)
References
- “sake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Adjective
sake
- inflection of saka (“one's own”):
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
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
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
sake n (uncountable)
Declension
declension of sake (singular only)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
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
Swedish
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Alternative forms
Noun
sake c
- saké (rice wine)
Declension
Declension of sake
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | sake | sakes |
| definite | saken | sakens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
References
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- es:Alcoholic beverages
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