Standard Lemma guide

saké

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • /ˈsækeɪ/
  • /ˈsɑːkeɪ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ækeɪ
  • rhymes with Rhymes: -ɑːkeɪ
  • /ˈsæki/
  • /ˈsɑːki/
  • rhymes with -æki
  • rhymes with Rhymes: -ɑːki

1

noun

Meaning 1

Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: alcoholic beverages

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Ainu: サケ (sake) — Japanese rice wine
  • Arabic: سَاكِي (sākī) — Japanese rice wine
  • Armenian: սակե (sake) — Japanese rice wine
  • Belarusian: сакэ́ (saké) — Japanese rice wine
  • Bengali: সাকে (śake) — Japanese rice wine
  • Bulgarian: саке́ (saké) — Japanese rice wine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 清酒 (qīngjiǔ) — Japanese rice wine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 日本酒 (rìběnjiǔ) — Japanese rice wine
  • Danish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Dutch: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Esperanto: sakeo — Japanese rice wine
  • Finnish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • French: saké — Japanese rice wine
  • Georgian: საკე (saḳe) — Japanese rice wine
  • German: Sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Greek: σάκε (sáke) — Japanese rice wine
  • Hebrew: סָאקֶה (sake) — Japanese rice wine
  • Hindi: साके (sāke) — Japanese rice wine
  • Hindi: साकी (sākī) — Japanese rice wine
  • Hungarian: szaké — Japanese rice wine
  • Icelandic: hrísgrjónavín — Japanese rice wine
  • Icelandic: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Ido: sakeo — Japanese rice wine
  • Indonesian: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Italian: sakè — Japanese rice wine
  • Italian: sachè — Japanese rice wine
  • Japanese: 酒 (sake) — Japanese rice wine
  • Japanese: 日本酒 (nihonshu) — Japanese rice wine
  • Japanese: 清酒 (seishu) — Japanese rice wine
  • Javanese: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Korean: 일본주 (ilbonju) — Japanese rice wine
  • Korean: 술 (sul) — Japanese rice wine
  • Northern Kurdish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Lithuanian: sakė — Japanese rice wine
  • Macedonian: са́ке (sáke) — Japanese rice wine
  • Malay: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Norwegian: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Okinawan: 大和酒 (yamatujaki) — Japanese rice wine
  • Persian: ساکی (sâki) — Japanese rice wine
  • Pohnpeian: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Polish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Portuguese: saqué — Japanese rice wine
  • Portuguese: saquê — Japanese rice wine
  • Russian: сакэ́ (sakɛ́) — Japanese rice wine
  • Russian: саке́ (sakɛ́) — Japanese rice wine
  • Spanish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Spanish: saki — Japanese rice wine
  • Swedish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Tagalog: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Thai: สาเก (săa-gay) — Japanese rice wine
  • Turkish: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Ukrainian: саке́ (saké) — Japanese rice wine
  • Vietnamese: sake — Japanese rice wine
  • Vietnamese: chông trù — Japanese rice wine