English Explanatory Dictionary

Saka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of any of various peoples formerly inhabiting steppes north of the Iranian plateau.
name
  1. The Iranian language of the Saka people.
name
  1. A town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
  2. A surname.
name
  1. A village in Ida-Viru County, Estonia.
name
  1. A village in Courland, Latvia.
name
  1. A commune of Oriental, Morocco.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Saka Sakas Saca

Etymology

First attested in the late 19th century as a learned borrowing from Sanskrit शक (śaka), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎣𐎠 (s-k-a /⁠Sakā⁠/, “Scythian”), from 𐎿𐎣 (s-k /⁠Saka⁠/, “Scythia”), from Scythian. Mostly displaced earlier Saca, ultimately from the same source via Latin. Doublet of Saca, Shaka, and Scyth.

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