What is "suka"

The Suka was a unique fiddle that was played vertically, on the knee or hanging from a strap, and the strings were stopped at the side with the fingernails; similar to the Gadulka. The body of the instrument was very similar to the modern violin, but the neck was very wide, and the pegbox was crude. This was thought to be the "missing link" between the upside-down or "knee chordophone" instruments, and the modern violin. It died out, and was known only from drawings of a single specimen displayed at an exhibition in 1888.

Suka may refer to:

• Suka (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root subh to shine] The bright one; applied to several Hindu mythological characters
• Suka Buddhist literature, a Brahmin ascetic said to have been a maharshi, who became of jivanmukta.
• Shuka (Shukadeva), the Hindu sage
• Suka (string instrument)
• Suka, love (in Indonesian)
• Suka, like (in Malay)
• Suka, Sugar (in Fijian)
• Sukaa, the Nepalese currency unit
• Suka Station
• Suka – meaning bitch (either as an insult or a female dog) in several Slavic languages (among others in Polish, Russian , Ukrainian)
• Sukkah, a Hebrew word meaning booth, used during the holiday of Sukkot
• Suka,(Tagalog-Filipino), 1. a vinegar 2. a vomit