See also: Appendix:Variations of "sake"
English
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/
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- Rhymes: -ækeɪ, Rhymes: -ɑːkeɪ
- IPA(key): /ˈsæki/, /ˈsɑːki/
- Rhymes: -æki, Rhymes: -ɑːki
Noun
saké (countable and uncountable, plural sakés)
- (alcoholic beverages) Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.
Derived terms
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 (śake)
- Bulgarian: саке́ n (saké)
- 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)
- Hindi: साके m (sāke), साकी (hi) m (sākī)
- Hungarian: szaké (hu)
- Icelandic: hrísgrjónavín n, sake n
- Ido: sakeo (io)
- Indonesian: sake (id)
- Italian: sakè m, sachè 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 (ms)
- 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) m, saki m (DEA)
- Swedish: sake (sv)
- Tagalog: sake
- Thai: สาเก (th) (săa-gay)
- Turkish: sake (tr)
- Ukrainian: саке́ n (saké)
- Vietnamese: sake (vi), chông trù c
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
saké m (plural sakés)
- saké, rice wine
Descendants
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
saké c
- alternative form of sake (“saké”)
Declension
References