Nuka
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Nuka can mean:
- In Ogoniland, (Nigeria) Nuka is commonly used as a personal name for males & females. Nuka in Ogoni dialect mean: Thing or Person of honor.
- Younger sibling of the speaker's sex (younger brother or younger sister) in the Inuit languageInuit languageThe Inuit language is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador. The related Yupik languages are spoken in western and southern Alaska and Russian Far East, particularly the Diomede Islands, but is severely endangered in Russia today and...
. Nuka is widely used as a personal name for females and males in GreenlandGreenlandGreenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
. In Canadian InuktitutInuktitutInuktitut or Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Inuit language is the name of some of the Inuit languages spoken in Canada...
as well as Alaskan Iñupiaq and Yupik (all branches of the InuitInuitThe Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
language), the form Nukaq is used, and is used more as a designation for younger sibling in these dialects.
- The Japanese word for rice bran
- A character in Astro BoyAstro Boy (1980s)is a remake of the 1960s anime series of the same name; both series are adapted from the manga by Osamu Tezuka.This series, which first aired during the 1980s, placed more focus on Astro's robotic skills and a somewhat darker storyline than the previous incarnation of the series. While mostly...
, a female robot on whom Astro has a crush - Nuka (The Lion King), a character from the 1998 Disney direct-to-video animated film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
- Dutch word for nuchter stierkalf (NuKa), a young cow.
- A river
- A wolf pack
- Water Spirit
- A ceramic glaze
- A Danish kayak model