User-submitted place name Sakha

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Type Political Subdivision

Usage Yakut, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Danish, English, French, Georgian, Hindi, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu

Scripts Саха(Yakut, Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic, Ukrainian) ساخا(Arabic, Persian) Սախա(Armenian) სახა(Georgian) साख़ा(Hindi) ساحا(Kazakh Arabic) ซาคา(Thai) سخا(Urdu)

Pronounced Pron. sa-KHA(Yakut)

su-KHA(Russian)

sah-KHAH(Armenian)

SAH-kə(English)

SA-KA(French)

SAH-KHAH(Georgian)

sa-KA(Thai)

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Meaning & History

From the name of the Sakha (Yakut) people, which is derived from Turkic jaka meaning "collar, edge". This is the name of a Russian federal republic also referred to as Yakutia.