Tika or TIKA may refer to: * Tika (crater), a crater on Saturn's satellite Rhea * Tika, Estonia, village in Võru County *

Apache Tika Apache Tika is a content detection and analysis framework, written in Java, stewarded at the Apache Software Foundation. It detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types, and as well as providing a Java library, ...

, content analysis software *

Tika Waylan This is a list of characters in the ''Dragonlance'' series of fantasy novels and related fantasy role-playing game materials. It includes accounts of their early lives in the series. Characters Alhana Starbreeze Alhana Starbreeze, Silvanesti E ...

, a character in the ''DragonLance'' series of fantasy novels * Tika and The Dissidents, an Indonesian band *

Bhai Tika Bhai Dooj, Bhai Tika, Bhaubeej, Bhai Beej, Bhai Phonta or Bhratri Dwitiya is a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of the Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) of Kartika, the eighth month of the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar or the ...

, a Hindu festival * "Tika Tika Tok", a 1955 song by

Alma Cogan Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Ch ...

* Tika Zone, part of the

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, Uganda *

Tilaka In Hinduism, the tilaka (), colloquially known as a tika, is a mark worn usually on the forehead, at the point of the Ajna, ''ajna chakra'' (third eye or spiritual eye) and sometimes other parts of the body such as the neck, hand, chest, or the ...

, a mark worn usually on the forehead in Hinduism *

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (, ) is a government department subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Turkey). Focusing on development cooperation, TİKA works in more than 150 countries. It also goes by the name Tu ...

, an international development government agency *

Sub-commentaries (Theravāda) The sub-commentaries (Pali: ''ṭīkā'') are primarily commentaries on the commentaries (Pali: ''aṭṭhakathā'') on the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, written in Sri Lanka. This literature continues the commentaries' development of the trad ...

, in Theravada Buddhism *

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, a title in certain Indian monarchies *

Peter (name) Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new na ...

, where "Tika" is an Albanian variation of a nickname for Petrika *'' Tika giacchinoi'' an extinct genus of

rhynchocephalian Rhynchocephalia (; ) is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species, the tuatara (''Sphenodon punctatus'') of New Zealand. Despite its current lack of diversity, during the Mesozoic rhynchocephalians were a speciose g ...

reptile from the Late Cretaceous of South America.

People with the name Tika

* Tika (singer) (born 1980), Indonesian singer * Tika Bhandari (born 1964), Nepalese musician * Tika Bogati (born 1962), Nepalese long-distance runner * Tika Bravani (born 1990), Indonesian actress * Tika Patsatsia (born 1981), Georgian entertainer * Tika Ram Paliwal (1909–1995), Indian politician * Tika Shrestha (born 1964), Nepalese sport shooter * Tika Simone (a/k/a TiKA), Canadian rhythm and blues singer *

Tika Sumpter Euphemia LatiQue "Tika" Sumpter (born June 20, 1980) is an American actress and producer. Sumpter began her career as the host of '' Best Friend's Date''. From 2005 to 2010, she appeared in the daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live''. In 2010, ...

(born 1980), American entertainer * Tika, character from

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People with the name Tika

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