Akela

Borrowed from Hindustani اَکیلَا (akelā) / अकेला (akelā, “alone”).

Akela

1. A fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Akela (plural Akelas)

1. The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts.
   • 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book:

     Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.

   • 2023 October 12, Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge: Big Beacon, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     The incident that cost him his licence, flying his plane too close to a Scout hut, followed the discovery that his wife was having an affair with a local Akela.

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Akela m anim (Cyrillic spelling Акела)

1. a male given name of historical usage

• Šabić, Indira (2017) “Akela”, in Antroponimija i toponimija bosanskoga srednjovjekovlja [Anthroponymy and toponymy of the Bosnian Middle Ages], Sarajevo: Dobra knjiga, →ISBN, page 312