Baka, baká or BAKA may refer to:
Ethnicities and languages
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Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon)
The Baka people, known in the Congo as Bayaka (''Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya''), are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Republic of the Congo, northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic ...
, an African ethnic group
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Baka people (Congo and South Sudan), an African ethnic group
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Baka language
Baka (also called ''Be-bayaga, Be-bayaka,'' and ''Bibaya de L’est'') is a dialect cluster of Ubangian languages spoken by the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon and Gabon. The people are ethnically close to the Aka, the two together called the Mbenga ( ...
, a dialect cluster of Cameroon and Gabon
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Baka language (South Sudan), a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan
People with the name
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Józef Baka, 18th century poet, Jesuit priest and missionary
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Latifa Baka
Latifa Baka (born 1964), is a Moroccan author of novels and short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the inte ...
(born 1964), Moroccan author
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Bikheris
Bikheris is the Hellenized name of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who may have ruled during the 4th Dynasty ( Old Kingdom period) around 2570 BC. Next to nothing is known about this ruler and some Egyptologists even believe him to be fictitio ...
or Ba-Ka, Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh
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Baka (prince), Fourth Dynasty Egyptian prince who might be the above-named Bikheris
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Baka Prase (born 1996), Serbian YouTuber, rapper, gamer and entertainer
Fictional and mythical characters
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Bakasura, a mythical demon in the ''Mahabharata'' also known as Baka
* Baka Brahma, a deity in Buddhism - see
Brahmā (Buddhism)
* Bākā, a character from ''
Juken Sentai Gekiranger
is Toei Company's thirty-first entry in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. Production began on September 29, 2006 with principal photography beginning on October 6, 2006. It premiered on February 18, 2007 on TV Asahi's 2007 ''Super Hero Time'' prog ...
''
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Cirno
This is a list of the characters that belong to the ''Touhou Project'', a series of ''danmaku'' and fighting video games by ZUN from Team Shanghai Alice. Most ''Touhou'' characters reside in a fictional realm called Gensokyo (, 'Land of Illus ...
, a fictional character from the ''Touhou Project'' who is often referred to by its fans and creator as "baka"
Places
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Baka, Burkina Faso
Baka is a village in the Coalla Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali ...
, a village in Gnagna Province
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Baka, Iran
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, a village in Hormozgan Province
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Baka, Jerusalem
Baka ( ar, بقعه, lit. "Valley"; he, בַּקְעָה) is a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. The official name is Geulim, which is mainly used on road signs.
Geography
The neighborhood is somewhat trapezoidal, sandwiched between Derech He ...
, a neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, Israel
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Baka, Slovakia, a village in Dunajská Streda District
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Bakkah, also transliterated Baka, another name for Mecca, Saudi Arabia
* Baká, one of the
municipalities of Nicaragua
The 15 departments and 2 autonomous regions of Nicaragua are divided into 153 municipalities. The formation and dissolution of municipalities is governed by the Law of Municipalities (in Spanish: ''Ley No.40 - Ley de Municipalidades''), drafted a ...
Other uses
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''Baka'' (Japanese word), meaning "fool; idiot; foolish", and which applies to:
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Yokosuka MXY-7 ''Ohka'', or Baka, Japanese suicide planes
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BAKA, the Muslim chaplain service of the Royal Malaysian Police
* Baka indigobird (''Vidua larvaticola''), a variant spelling of
barka indigobird
The barka indigobird (''Vidua larvaticola'') is a species of bird in the family Viduidae. It is found in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan. It is also known as the baka indigobird but the spelling " ...
, an African species of bird
* ''Baka'', the 1990 debut album of the world-music group
Outback (group)
Outback were a world music group founded in the late 1980s by multi-instrumentalists Graham Wiggins and Martin Cradick. The group fused traditional Australian tribal music, represented primarily through Wiggins's didgeridoo, with modern West ...
See also
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The Baka Boyz The Baka Boyz, brothers Nick and Eric Vidal, are American radio personalities, music producers and remixers from Bakersfield, California. The duo first achieved fame on the hip-hop/ R&B radio station KPWR (Power 106 FM) in Los Angeles.
Backgr ...
(Nick and Eric Vidal), nationally syndicated radio hosts in the US
* ''Baka Rangers'', a group of ''
Negima! Magister Negi Magi
''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from February 2003 to March 2012, with its chapters ...
'' characters
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Bakas
Bakas, also spelled Bakkas, is a village in Gosainganj block of Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 8,171, in 1,444 households. It is the seat of a gram panchayat.
History
Around the turn of the 20th centur ...
, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Amalia Bakas
Amalia Bakas (born Mazaltov allyMatsa 1897–1979) was a Greek singer and performer in the United States during the 20th century. She was heavily involved in the "Eighth Avenue scene" in New York City and in Greek communities around the United S ...
(1897–1979), Greek singer born Mazaltov Matsa
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Rifaiz Bakas (born 1982), Dutch former cricketer
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