Sake

Noun

 * 1) cause, interest or account
 * For the sake of argument
 * 1) purpose or end; reason
 * For old times' sake
 * 1) The benefit or regard of someone or something
 * 2) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
 * But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,
 * 1)   contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

Derived terms

 * for Christ’s sake
 * for God’s sake
 * for heaven’s sake
 * for sake of
 * for the sake of
 * for the sake of it

Noun

 * 1)  Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.

Synonyms

 * rice wine

Thesaurus
account, advantage, aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, basis, behalf, benefit, calling, cause, consideration, counsel, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, effect, fixed purpose, function, gain, goal, good, ground, guiding light, guiding star, idea, ideal, inspiration, intendment, intent, intention, lodestar, mainspring, matter, meaning, mind, motive, nisus, objectives, plan, point, principle, profit, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, purposes, reason, reasons, resolution, resolve, score, source, spring, striving, study, ulterior motive, view, vocation, welfare, well-being, will

Etymology 1
sake: from sacu: from  from. Akin to seke: ( zaak: "cause, thing"),  sahha: ( Sache: "thing, legal cause"),  sök:, sekja: ( sag:,  sak:),  𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉:,  socn:,  secan:. More at soke, soken, seek.

Etymology 2
Japanese 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Alternative forms

 * saké, saki

Noun

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 * Dutch: -halve, wille


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 * Latin: gratia


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 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * : Willen
 * Icelandic: í þágu


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * : mwyn

Noun

 * Ainu:
 * Arabic: ساكي
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sakeo
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 * Indonesian:
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 * Italian: sakè
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: 일본주 (日本酒), 술
 * Lithuanian:
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 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
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 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * : สาเก
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
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Anagrams

 * akes, aske, keas

Noun

 * 1) sake Japanese rice wine

Noun

 * 1)  sake, alcohol-based beverage

Noun

 * 1)  salmon

Etymology 1
From Tungusic, cognate with arrack

Alternative forms

 * お酒 (おさけ, osake, saké)

Pronunciation
sákè

Noun

 * 1) sake

Etymology
From 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.

Noun

 * , Japanese rice wine

Etymology
From 酒 (sake), any alcoholic drink.