saki
saki Lexical Profile
saki Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice, traditionally served warm or at room temperature; a variant spelling of sake.
"The chef paired the delicate sashimi with a chilled saki to enhance the subtle flavors of the fish."
Any of various small South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia, characterized by long, coarse hair and a thick, bushy, non-prehensile tail.
"We observed a white-faced saki leaping nimbly between the branches in the canopy of the Amazonian rainforest."
Word Nuance & Usage
When referring to the Japanese rice beverage, the spelling 'sake' is vastly more common in modern English than 'saki', though both represent the same word.
• Rhymes for saki
Word Origin & Etymology
The word has two distinct and unrelated origins. As a monkey, it derives from Portuguese 'saqui', tracing back to the Tupi indigenous language word 'saha'i'. As a beverage, it is a phonetically Anglicized variant of the Japanese word 'sake'.
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