Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.
Pircarînî
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/ˈsækeɪ/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)
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.