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Sukkah

A sukkah (Hebrew סֻכָּה, booth) is a temporary hut with at least three walls and a plant-material roof that Jews dwell in during the seven-day festival of Sukkot.

Sukkal of Elam and Shimashki

The sukkal of Elam and Shimashki was a delegated high office of the Sukkalmah state of Elam, held by the ruler's children who governed the eastern provinces.

Sukkal of Susa

The sukkal of Susa was a delegated vice-regal office of Sukkalmah Elam, governing Susiana around the capital Susa in southwestern Iran during the early second millennium BC.

Sukkalmah dynasty

The Sukkalmah dynasty, also called the Epartid dynasty, ruled Elam and Anshan from about 1970 to 1600 BCE, when Elam became a major powerbroker across Western Asia.

Sukkot (סוכות)

Sukkot (סוכות), also called the Feast of Tabernacles, is a seven-day Jewish pilgrimage festival beginning on the 15th of Tishrei, marked by dwelling in a sukkah and taking the Four Species.

Oct 20, 2026

Sukkur (سکھر) is a city in northern Sindh, Pakistan, on the Indus River opposite Rohri. Known for Sukkur Barrage (1932), Lansdowne Bridge (1889), and the buried Indus Civilization site Lakhanjo-Daro; district population 1,625,467 (2023 census).

Oct 15, 2026

Sukkur Barrage

Sukkur Barrage, originally the Lloyd Barrage, is a barrage across the Indus River at Sukkur, Pakistan, commissioned in 1932 to irrigate about 7.63 million acres.

Sukkur District

Sukkur District, northern Sindh, Pakistan, on the Indus River; headquarters Sukkur city. Census 2023 population 1,639,897, five tehsils, 49.7% urban, literacy 58.26%.

Sukkwan Island (film)

Sukkwan Island is a 2025 psychological survival drama by Vladimir de Fontenay, adapted from David Vann's novella in Legend of a Suicide; it premiered in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition, stars Swann Arlaud and Woody Norman, and was relocated from Alaska to the Norwegian fjords.

Sep 27, 2026

Sukla Charan Noatia

Sukla Charan Noatia is an Indian politician from Tripura and a member of the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT), serving as a minister in the state government.

Sukran (சுக்ரன்)

Sukran (சுக்ரன்) is a 2005 Tamil action drama directed and produced by S. A. Chandrasekhar, starring Ravi Krishna and Anita Hassanandani, with Vijay in the title role as a lawyer in a special appearance, with music by Vijay Antony.

Sukriti Kakar

Sukriti Kakar is an Indian playback and pop singer, born in 1995, known for "Pehli Baar" and "Jhoome Jo Pathaan" and for performing with her twin sister Prakriti as the duo SuPra.

Sukriti Veni

Sukriti Veni (Sukriti Veni Bandreddi) is an Indian Telugu child actress, daughter of director Sukumar. Debut Gandhi Tatha Chettu (2025) won her the 71st National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

Sep 24, 2026

Şükrullah

Şükrullah (شکرالله) was a fifteenth-century Ottoman historian and diplomat who served Murad II and Mehmed II and wrote the Persian world history Behcetu't-Tevarih for the court between 1456 and 1459.

Sep 23, 2026

Suksaha

Suksaha (苏克萨哈) was a Qing dynasty statesman and general of the Nara clan, appointed one of four regents for the young Kangxi Emperor in 1661.

Sukumar (బండ్రెడ్డి సుకుమార్)

Bandreddi Sukumar (బండ్రెడ్డి సుకుమార్), Telugu film director, screenwriter, and producer; debut Arya (2004) with Allu Arjun; directed Rangasthalam and the Pushpa films; runs Sukumar Writings; National Film Award for Pushpa 2 screenplay.

Oct 22, 2026

Sukumar Azhikode

Sukumar Azhikode (സുകുമാർ അഴീക്കോട്), born Sukumaran in 1926, was an Indian academic, writer, and orator in Malayalam, best known for Tatvamasi (1984), a study of Indian philosophy.

Sukumar filmography

The Sukumar filmography covers the directing, writing, and producing credits of Bandreddi Sukumar, a Telugu filmmaker whose nine directed films include Rangasthalam and the Pushpa series.

Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়)

Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়, 1887–1923), Bengali nonsense poet, editor of Sandesh, author of Abol Tabol, HaJaBaRaLa and Pagla Dashu; father of filmmaker Satyajit Ray, son of printing pioneer Upendrakishore.

Oct 22, 2026

Sukumar Sen

Sukumar Sen (সুকুমার সেন; 1900–1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta, known for his History of Bengali Literature and a two-volume etymological dictionary of Bengali.

Sukumara ghrta

Sukumara ghrta (सुकुमारघृत) is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee combining cow ghee and castor oil, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India and used for abdominal and gynecological complaints.

Sukumara Kurup

Sukumara Kurup (സുകുമാരക്കുറുപ്പ്, born Gopalakrishna Kurup) is Kerala's longest-absconding fugitive, prime accused in the 1984 murder of film representative KJ Chacko in a Rs 8 lakh insurance-fraud plot; untried and untraced for over 40 years.

Sukumaran (സുകുമാരൻ)

Sukumaran (സുകുമാരൻ), Edappal Ponnamkuzhi Veettil Parameswaran Sukumaran Nair, was a Malayalam cinema actor and producer, the 1970s angry-young-man superstar who won the 1978 Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for Bandhanam, acted in about 248 films, and fathered actors Indrajith and Prithviraj Sukumaran; not the director K. Sukumaran.

Sukumari

Sukumari (സുകുമാരി), 1940–2013, Indian actress of Malayalam and Tamil cinema, known as Sukumari "Amma"; over 2,500 films in 62 years, National Film Award for Namma Gramam, Padma Shri 2003; not the writer Sukumari or actress Mallika Sukumaran.

Sukunaarchaeum

Sukunaarchaeum (Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile) is an archaeon with a 238 kbp genome, the smallest known for any archaeon, retaining only DNA replication, transcription, and translation machinery and lacking metabolic genes; found via single-cell genomics from the dinoflagellate Citharistes regius.

Sukur Cultural Landscape

Sukur Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999) in Adamawa State, Nigeria, on the Mandara Mountains plateau, a hilltop settlement with the Hidi's granite palace, terraced fields, and historic iron-smelting remains.

Sep 21, 2026

Sukyoung K. Yi

Sukyoung K. Yi (이석영) is a South Korean astrophysicist and Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for the widely used Yonsei–Yale (Y2) stellar isochrones.

Sul Ross State University

Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public Texas State University System university in Alpine, Texas, founded as Sul Ross Normal College, with border campuses in Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and Uvalde; Hispanic Serving Institution since 1999, NCAA Division II, and 2025 Carnegie RCU and OCU designations.

Sula (novel)

Sula is Toni Morrison's 1973 second novel (Knopf), following The Bluest Eye, about the friendship of Nel Wright and Sula Peace in the Black hilltop Bottom of Medallion, Ohio, where Sula's pariah status binds the community.