Saka

See also: saka, Sáka, sāka, šaka, şaka, säkä, and šaką

English

Etymology 1

The name of the Iranian language and people is from Persian ساکا (sâkâ, “Saka”).

Noun

Saka (plural Saka or Sakas or Sacae)

1. Any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.

Proper noun

Saka

1. The Iranian language of the Saka people.
2. A town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
3. A village in Ida-Viru County, Estonia.
4. A village in Courland, Latvia.
5. A commune of Oriental, Morocco.

Translations

language

• Armenian: սակերեն (hy) (sakeren)
• Finnish: saka
• Hindi: शक (hi) f (śak), शाक (hi) f (śāk), शाका (hi) f (śākā)
• Kazakh: сақ тілі (saq tılı), сақа тілі (saqa tılı)
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• Persian: ساکا (sâkâ)
• Russian: сакский (ru) (sakskij)

town in Japan

• Chinese: 坂町 (bǎndīng)
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• Japanese: 坂町 (Saka-chō)

village in Estonia

• Estonian: Saka
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• German: Sackhof n

village in Latvia

• German: Sackenhausen (pre-1918)
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• Latvian: Saka

commune in Morocco

• Arabic: صاكة (ṣāka)
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Etymology 2

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Turkish Saka, an occupational surname for a water-carrier, from saka (“water-carrier”).
• Borrowed from Yoruba Saka, a surname of unexplained origin.
• Borrowed from Japanese 坂 (Saka), a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.

Proper noun

Saka (plural Sakas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Saka is the 40976^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 532 individuals. Saka is most common among White (46.62%), Black/African American (31.02%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (17.67%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Saka”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Javanese ꦱꦏ (saka), from Sanskrit शक (śaka), शाक (śāka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saka/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ka

Noun

Saka (first-person possessive Sakaku, second-person possessive Sakamu, third-person possessive Sakanya)

1. Javanese calendar, Balinese calendar.

Further reading

• “Saka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Turkish

Proper noun

Saka

1. a male given name