Saka

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.

Borrowed from Japanese 坂(さか) (Saka); sometimes used as a topographic surname for someone who lived on a slope.

Borrowed from Estonian Saka.

Borrowed from Latvian Saka.

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic صاكة (ṣāka).

Borrowed from Turkish Saka, an occupational surname for a water-carrier, from saka (“water-carrier”).

Borrowed from Yoruba Saka.