Jakarta

English

Alternative forms

• Djakarta

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

2. 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.

3. (metonymically) 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

• Jakartan

Translations

capital of Indonesia

• Afrikaans: Djakarta
• Albanian: Xhakarta f
• Amharic: ጃካርታ (ǧakarta)
• Arabic: جَاكَرْتَا f (jakartā)
• Armenian: Ջակարտա (J̌akarta)
• Assamese: জাকাৰ্টা (zakarta)
• Azerbaijani: Cakarta
• Belarusian: Джака́рта f (Džakárta)
• Bengali: জাকার্তা (bn) (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: Zakata
• Finnish: Jakarta (fi)
• French: Jakarta (fr) f, Djakarta (fr) f
• Galician: Iacarta (gl)
• Georgian: ჯაკარტა (ka) (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), 쟈까르따 (ko) (Jakkareutta) (North Korea)
• 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 n

  Nynorsk: Jakarta n

• Odia: ଜାକର୍ତା (jākartā)
• Pashto: جاکارتا f (jākārtā)
• Persian:

  Dari: جَاکَارْتَا (jākārtā)

  Iranian Persian: جاکارْتا (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
• Tagalog: Jakarta
• 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 (tr)
• Turkmen: Jakarta
• Ukrainian: Джака́рта f (Džakárta)
• Urdu: جَکارْتَہ m (jakārta)
• Uyghur: جاكارتا (jakarta)
• Uzbek: Jakarta
• Vietnamese: Gia-các-ta, Giang Lưu Ba
• Welsh: Jakarta
• Yiddish: דזשאַקאַרטאַ n (dzhakarta)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Jakarta

1. Alternative form of Djakarta

Catalan

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian Jakarta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [d͡ʒəˈkar.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaˈkaɾ.ta]

Proper noun

Jakarta m

1. Jakarta

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʒakarta]

Proper noun

Jakarta f (related adjective jakartský)

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

Declension

Declension of Jakarta (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Jakarta
genitive	Jakarty
dative	Jakartě
accusative	Jakartu
vocative	Jakarto
locative	Jakartě
instrumental	Jakartou

Further reading

• “Jakarta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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 (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

Alternative forms

• Djakarta (dated, pre-1967)

Synonyms

• Sunda Kelapa
• Jayakarta
• Batavia

Further reading

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

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 (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, 2024

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 (the capital of Indonesia)