Tarka

Tarka may refer to:

• Tarka Shastra, Sanskrit term for the philosophy of logic and reasoning
• Tarka, also tadka or chhaunk, in Indian cuisine is a method of seasoning food with spices heated in oil or ghee
• Tarka, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Benue State, Nigeria
• Tarka, Niger
• Tarka the Otter, a 1927 novel by Henry Williamson
  • Tarka the Otter (film), based on the novel
• Tarka Line, a railway line in Devon, England
• Tarka Trail, a series of footpaths assembled from former railway lines
• Tarka (medication), a brand name for an antihypertensive medication
• Tarka (flute), also tharqa, a traditional flute of the Andes
• David Tarka (born 1983), Australian football player
• Taharqa, Nubian pharaoh of the twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
• Tarka (film), a 1988 Kannada language movie
• Taarka, an Oregonian quartet
• Tarka Cordell (1968–2008), British musician, writer and record producer
• Wiesław Tarka (born 1964), Polish diplomat
• The Tarka, an alien race in the video game Sword of the Stars

• Taraka (disambiguation)
• Tadka (film), a 2022 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film
• Tarka sastra, an Indian science of dialectics, logic and reasoning