Tarka and similar may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Tarka (flute), also tharqa, a traditional flute of the Andes Tarka (film), a 1988 Kannada language movie Tarka the Otter, a 1927 novel by Henry Williamson Tarka the Otter (film), based on the novel Taarka, an Oregonian quartet The Tarka, an alien race in the video game Sword of the Stars
People Taharqa, Nubian pharaoh of the twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt David Tarka (born 1983), Australian football player Wiesław Tarka (born 1964), Polish diplomat Tarka Cordell (1968–2008), British musician, writer and record producer
Places Tarka, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Benue State, Nigeria Tarka, Niger Tarka Line, a railway line in Devon, England Tarka Trail, a series of footpaths assembled from former railway lines
Other uses Tarka (medication), a brand name for an antihypertensive medication Tarka Shastra, a Sanskrit term for the philosophy of logic and reasoning Tarka, also tadka or chhaunk, in Indian cuisine
See also Taraka (disambiguation) Tadka (film), a 2022 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film Tarka sastra, an Indian science of dialectics, logic and reasoning