Saka

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

Saka (plural Saka or Sakas or Sacae)

1. A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.

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.

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.

Saka (plural Sakas)

1. A surname.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

1. Javanese calendar, Balinese calendar.

• “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.

Saka

1. a male given name