saké
Pluralsakés
- 1A Japanese alcoholic beverage made from filtered, fermented rice, traditionally called rice wine.
Made much the way beer is brewed from grain, rather than the way wine is pressed from grapes.
The restaurant served warm saké alongside the grilled fish.
Brewers in the region have produced saké for centuries using local spring water.
Note
The accent is a reader's aid. Japanese 酒 ends in a sounded vowel, and the marked é tells English readers to pronounce it, not to read the word as the sake of "for the sake of." The spelling was likely shaped by French saké. Like wine, it is uncountable for the drink itself (a cup of saké) and countable for kinds of it, as in a menu of regional sakés.
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Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, "rice wine"). The accented final e marks that it is pronounced, unlike in other senses of "sake," and helps set the words apart; the spelling was likely influenced by French saké.