different between sake vs saye

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-Germanic *sak? (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“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 ???????????????????? (sakj?, “dispute, argument”), Old English s?cn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English s?can (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?k, IPA^(key): /se?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

sake (plural sakes)

1. cause, interest or account

2. purpose or end; reason

3. the benefit or regard of someone or something
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.

     But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]

4. (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.

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

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic beverage, especially rice wine”), with pronunciation possibly influenced by Okinawan ? (saki).

Alternative forms

• saké, saki

Pronunciation

• enPR: säk?, IPA^(key): /s??ke?/
  • Rhymes: -??ke?
• enPR: säk?, IPA^(key): /s??ki/
  • Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)

2. A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume.
3. (inexact) Synonym of rice wine.

Translations

See also

• awamori
• shochu

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

• saké, saki

Etymology

From Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.ke?/
• Hyphenation: sa?ke

Noun

sake m (uncountable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

   Hypernyms: rijstbier, rijstwijn

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ke/, [?s??ke?]
• Rhymes: -?ke
• Syllabification: sa?ke

Noun

sake

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Declension

Anagrams

• eksa-, seka-

Hausa

Noun

sàk? m (possessed form sàken)

1. slackness

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese ?(??) (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)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Alternative forms

• saki (nonstandard)

Further reading

• “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

sake

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kapampangan

Verb

sake

1. to board, to embark, to ride

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-Germanic *sak?.

Noun

s?ke f

1. case, matter, affair
2. thing
3. 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 sak?

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sà.ke/

Verb

sake

1. to take out
2. to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
3. to answer to a call
4. to succeed, do well

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

sake

1. inflection of saka (“one's own”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.k?/

Noun

sake n (indeclinable)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• saquê, saqué

Etymology

From Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.

Romanian

Etymology

From French saké.

Noun

sake n (uncountable)

1. sake

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Japanese ? (sake, “alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sake/, [?sa.ke]
• Homophone: saque

Noun

sake m (plural sakes)

1. sake (Japanese rice wine)

English

Verb

saye

1. Obsolete spelling of say

Anagrams

• Ayes, Seay, ayes, easy, eyas, yaes, yeas

Hausa

Noun

sày? m (plural sày?-sày?, possessed form sàyen)

1. A purchase; buying
2. verbal noun of saya

Noun

s??y? m (possessed form s??yen)

1. Speaking in a way such as to hide the meaning from a listener.

Middle English

Verb

saye

1. Alternative form of assayen