Jakarta

Jakarta

English

Alternative forms

• Djakarta

Etymology

Derives from Sanskrit जयकर्ता (jayakartā, “that which causes victory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈkɑː(ɹ)tə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə

Proper noun

Jakarta

1. The capital city of Indonesia.
   • 2006, Obama, Barack, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream‎, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 273‎:

     And in fact, forgetting the past was easy to do in Indonesia. Jakarta was still a sleepy backwater in those days, with few buildings over four or five stories high, cycle rickshaws outnumbering cars, the city center and wealthier sections of town—with their colonial elegance and lush, well-tended lawns—quickly giving way to clots of small villages with unpaved roads and open sewers, dusty markets, and shanties of mud and brick and plywood and corrugated iron that tumbled down gentle banks to murky rivers where families bathed and washed laundry like pilgrims in the Ganges.

2. (metonymically) The Indonesian government.
   • 2010, Herman, Edward; Peterson, David, The Politics of Genocide‎, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 90:

     In an effort to make sure the referendum would not take place or that the Timorese would at least approve the outcome desired by Jakarta, the Indonesians launched yet another campaign of terror and killings, the violence dramatically increasing in the months before the UN agreement and culminating in the weeks after the vote on August 30.

3. A province of Indonesia, containing the capital city.

Derived terms

• Jakartan

Translations

capital of Indonesia

Albanian: Xhakarta f Amharic: ጃካርታ (ǧakarta) Arabic: جَاكَرْتَا‎ f (jakartā) Armenian: Ջակարտա (J̌akarta) Assamese: জাকাৰ্টা (zakarta) Azerbaijani: Cakarta Belarusian: Джака́рта f (Džakárta) Bengali: জাকার্তা (jakarta) Bulgarian: Джака́рта f (Džakárta) Burmese: ဂျကာတာ (gya.kata) Catalan: Jakarta Chinese: Cantonese: 耶加達, 耶加达 (je4 gaa1 daat6) Mandarin: 雅加達／雅加达 (zh) (Yǎjiādá), 椰城 (Yēchéng, Yéchéng) (dated) Corsican: Giacarta, Ghjacarta Czech: Jakarta (cs) f Danish: Jakarta n Dutch: Jakarta (nl) n Esperanto: Ĝakarto (eo) Estonian: Jakarta (et) Farefare: Dcakarta, Zakarta Finnish: Jakarta (fi) French: Jakarta (fr) f, Djakarta f Galician: Iacarta (gl) Georgian: ჯაკარტა (ǯaḳarṭa) German: Jakarta (de) n Greek: Τζακάρτα (el) f (Tzakárta), Βαταβία f (Vatavía) (historical) Gujarati: જાકાર્તા (jākārtā) Hebrew: גָ׳קַרְטָה‎ f (jakarta) Hindi: जकार्ता m (jakārtā) Hungarian: Jakarta (hu) Icelandic: Djakarta Indonesian: Jakarta (id); Djakarta (dated), Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta, Batavia (id) (historical) Irish: Iacárta Italian: Giacarta f Japanese: ジャカルタ (ja) (Jakaruta) Kannada: ಜಕಾರ್ತ (jakārta) Kazakh: Джакарта (Djakarta) Khmer: ចាការតា (caakaataa) Korean: 자카르타 (ko) (Jakareuta) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Cakarta Kyrgyz: Жакарта (Jakarta) Lao: ຈາກາຕາ (chā kā tā) Latvian: Džakarta f Lithuanian: Džakarta f Macedonian: Џакарта f (Džakarta) Malay: Jakarta Malayalam: ജക്കാർത്ത (jakkāṟtta) Maltese: Ġakarta f Marathi: जकार्ता (jakārtā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Жакарта (Žakarta) Navajo: Jakʼáta Norwegian: Bokmål: Jakarta Nynorsk: Jakarta Oriya: ଜାକର୍ତା (jakôrta) Pashto: جاکارتا‎ f (jākārtā) Persian: جاکارتا‎ (jâkârtâ) Polish: Dżakarta (pl) f Portuguese: Jacarta f Romanian: Jakarta (ro) Russian: Джака́рта (ru) f (Džakárta) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Џакарта f Roman: Džakarta f Sinhalese: ජකාර්තා (jakārtā) Slovak: Jakarta f Slovene: Džakarta f Spanish: Yakarta (es) f Swedish: Jakarta (sv) n Tajik: Ҷакарта (Jakarta) Tamil: ஜகார்த்தா (jakārttā) Tatar: Җакарта (Caqarta) Telugu: జకార్తా (jakārtā) Thai: จาการ์ตา (jaa-gaa-dtâa) Tibetan: ཊ་ཁར་ཏ (ṭa khar ta) Turkish: Cakarta Turkmen: Jakarta Ukrainian: Джака́рта f (Džakárta) Urdu: جکارتہ‎ m (jakārtā) Uyghur: جاكارتا‎ (jakarta) Uzbek: Jakarta Vietnamese: Gia-các-ta, Giang Lưu Ba Welsh: Jakarta Yiddish: דזשאַקאַרטאַ‎ n (dzhakarta)

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Indonesian

Etymology

Derives from Sanskrit जयकर्ता (jayakartā, “that which causes victory”), from जय (jaya, “glory”) +‎ कर्ता (kartā, “doer, accomplisher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaˈkarta/
• Hyphenation: Ja‧kar‧ta
• Rhymes: -ta, -a

Proper noun

Jakarta

1. Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia)
2. Jakarta (a province of Indonesia)

Alternative forms

• Djakarta (dated, pre-1967)

Synonyms

• Sunda Kelapa
• Jayakarta
• Batavia

Further reading

• “Jakarta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaka(r)tə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaka(r)ta/
• Rhymes: -a(r)tə, -tə, -ə

Proper noun

Jakarta

1. Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia)
2. Jakarta (a province of Indonesia)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Jakarta f

1. Alternative spelling of Jacarta

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒakarta]

Proper noun

Jakarta f (genitive singular Jakarty, declension pattern of žena)

1. Jakarta (the capital of Indonesia)

References

• Jakarta in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk