Akka
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Akka has multiple meanings.
- Akka was a Finnish goddess.
- Akka is also a pejorative term for wife, or old woman in the Finnish language.
- Noita-akka is a Finnish word for a female practitioner of witchcraft.
- Akka means Sister in south Indian languages like Kannada, Telugu.
- Akka or aka are also a tribe of African pygmies.
- Akká is an alternate spelling of Acre, a city in Northwest Israel.
- Akka is a city in Morocco.
- Akka is the Swedish variant of the Sámi mountain name Áhkká.
- Akka is a fictive person (or a goose, in fact) in a children's novel, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish nobelist Selma Lagerlöf.
- Akka also refers to Akka Mahadevi, a Lingayat saint of the 12th CE belonging to Karnataka state of India.
