Tika
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Tika can be:
- A Nepalese name for Tilaka
- A nickname for Petrika the Albanian variation of Peter
- A title in certain Indian monarchies for a Crown Prince
- A place in Abkhazia
- A place on Saturn's satellite Rhea, named after the last place
- A name in various Indian languages (ṭīkā) for certain commentaries such as:
- the subcommentaries of the Theravada tradition.
- A pendant worn in place of the red spot (tilaka or 'tika') on the foreheads of Hindu women. Originally, the red spot was a sign which a priest would paint on the brow of a visitor to the temple. Later the tika became a standard part of the costume of a Hindu woman. The tika can be stuck on or drawn, or, in the form of a pendant, suspended between the eyes. Also known as Maang Tika.
- Tika Waylan, a major character in the DragonLance series of fantasy novels
- A software module for extracting text from binary files. Apache Tika is a subproject of the Lucene