Jakarta

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Indonesian Jakarta, from Sanskrit जयकर्ता (jayakartā, that which causes victory).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒəˈkɑː(ɹ)tə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. A province and capital city of Indonesia.
    Synonym: (historical) Batavia
    • 2006, Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream[1], New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 273[2]:
      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. (metonymic) The Indonesian government.
    • 2010, Edward Herman, David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide[3], 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. alternative form of Djakarta

Betawi

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒakarˈta/
  • Rhymes: -ta
  • Hyphenation: Ja‧kar‧ta

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)
    Synonyms: Sunda Kelapa, Jaketra, Betawi

Catalan

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian Jakarta.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jakarta m

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdʒakarta]

Proper noun

Jakarta f (relational adjective jakartský)

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

Declension

Further reading

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaˈkarta/ [d͡ʒaˈkar.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -arta
  • Syllabification: Ja‧kar‧ta

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)
    Synonyms: Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta, Batavia

Further reading

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Riau, Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaˈka(r)ta/ [d͡ʒaˈka(r).t̪a]
    • Rhymes: -arta, -ata
  • (Baku) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaˈkarta/ [d͡ʒaˈkar.t̪a]
    • Rhymes: -arta
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): /d͡ʒaˈka(r)tə/ [d͡ʒaˈka(r).t̪ə] (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
    • Rhymes: -artə, -atə
  • Hyphenation: Ja‧kar‧ta

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Jakarta f

  1. alternative spelling of Jacarta

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒakarta]

Proper noun

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

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

References

  • Jakarta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • Gia-các-ta

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Jakarta.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zaː˧˧ kaːk̚˧˦ taː˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [jaː˧˧ kaːk̚˦˧˥ taː˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jaː˧˧ kaːk̚˦˥ taː˧˧]
  • Phonetic spelling: gia các ta

Proper noun

Jakarta

  1. Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)