Raka may refer to:
Places
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Raka, Burkina Faso
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Raka, Tibet
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Raka, Krško, a village in the Municipality of Krško, southeastern Slovenia
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Raka, Järva County, village in Ambla Parish, Järva County, Estonia
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Raka, Rapla County, village in Rapla Parish, Rapla County, Estonia
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Raqqa
Raqqa (, also , Kurdish language, Kurdish: ''Reqa'') is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and b ...
, a city in Syria
Mythology and religion
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Raka'ah
A Rak'a ( ', lit. "bow"; plural: ') is a single iteration of prescribed movements and supplications performed by Muslims as part of the prescribed obligatory prayer known as salah. Each of the five daily prayers observed by Muslims consists ...
, one unit of Islamic prayer, or ''Salaa''
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Raka (mythology), a deity in Cook Islands mythology
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Raka-maomao, a deity in Māori mythology
* Raka, in Hindu mythology, a wife of
Dhata
In Hinduism, Dhata () or Dhatr () is the name of the solar deity, one of the Adityas.Mani p. 232 He is also a god of health and magic. He is invoked in tantra by drawing tantras and chanting Vedic hymns. Often invoked during major yagnas su ...
* Raka, in the ''Ramayana'', sister of
Kaikasi
Other uses
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Rajdhani College, University of Delhi, India
* ''Raka'', an epic poem by
Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw
* ''Raka'', a 2019 EP by
Golden Features and the Presets
* Raka, a fictional villain in the 1960 Indian film ''
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai'', played by Pran
* Raka, an antagonist in the 2019 Indian animated series
''Chacha Chaudhary''
See also
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Rakah (disambiguation)
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Kate Challis RAKA Award
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