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Jakarta
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English
Alternative forms
en Djakarta
Etymology
en ine-pro *gʷey- *kʷer-
en :bor id:Jakarta 1
en id Jakarta, from en sa जयकर्ता that which causes victory.
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒəˈkɑː(ɹ)tə/
en [d͡ʒəˈkʰaɹɾə] GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Zazollo-Jakarta.wav United States
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Jakarta.wav Southern England
en ɑː(ɹ)tə 3
Proper noun
en Q3630 en province/and/capital city c/Indonesia.
en Batavia historical
en w:Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream New York, N.Y. Crown Publishers 2006 273 https://archive.org/details/audacityofhope0000obam/ https://archive.org/details/audacityofhope0000obam/page/273/ https://books.google.com/books?id=k85pcYttpW0C 978-0-307-23769-9 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.
en Mochamad Andri Indonesians caught without a mask forced to dig graves for Covid-19 victims w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/17/asia/indonesia-coronavirus-grave-diggers-intl-hnk-scli 2020-09-17 Authorities in the capital of Jakarta adopted a similar idea earlier this month. A man there was required to sit in a coffin in public after being caught not wearing a mask. https://web.archive.org/web/20250922230144/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/17/asia/indonesia-coronavirus-grave-diggers-intl-hnk-scli 22 September 2025
en metonym The Indonesian government.
en Edward Herman; David Peterson The Politics of Genocide https://books.google.com/books?id=YocTCgAAQBAJ New York Monthly Review Press 2010 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=YocTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA90 978-1-58367-212-9 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
en Jakartan
Translations
capital of Indonesia
Afrikaans: af Djakarta
Albanian: sq Xhakarta f
Amharic: am ጃካርታ
Arabic: ar جَاكَرْتَا f jakartā
Armenian: hy Ջակարտա
Assamese: as জাকাৰ্টা
Asturian: ast Xakarta
Azerbaijani: az Cakarta
Belarusian: be Джака́рта f
Bengali: bn জাকার্তা
Betawi: bew Jakarte
Bulgarian: bg Джака́рта f
Burmese: my ဂျကာတာ
Catalan: ca Jakarta
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 耶加達 je4 gaa1 daat6, yue 雅加達
Mandarin: cmn 雅加達 Yǎjiādá, cmn 椰城 Yēchéng, Yéchéng dated
Corsican: co Giacarta, co Ghjacarta
Czech: cs Jakarta f
Danish: da Jakarta n
Dutch: nl Jakarta n
Esperanto: eo Ĝakarto
Estonian: et Jakarta
Farefare: gur Zakata
Finnish: fi Jakarta
French: fr Jakarta f, fr Djakarta f
Galician: gl Iacarta
Georgian: ka ჯაკარტა
German: de Jakarta n
Greek: el Τζακάρτα f, el Βαταβία f historical
Gujarati: gu જાકાર્તા
Hebrew: he גָ׳קַרְטָה f jakarta
Hindi: hi जकार्ता m
Hungarian: hu Jakarta
Icelandic: is Djakarta
Indonesian: id Jakarta, id Djakarta dated, id Sunda Kelapa, id Jayakarta, id Batavia historical
Irish: ga Iacárta
Italian: it Giacarta f
Japanese: ja ジャカルタ Jakaruta
Kannada: kn ಜಕಾರ್ತ
Kazakh: kk Джакарта
Khmer: km ចាការតា
Korean: ko ^자카르타, ko ^쟈까르따 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Cakarta
Kyrgyz: ky Жакарта
Lao: lo ຈາກາຕາ
Latvian: lv Džakarta f
Lithuanian: lt Džakarta f
Macedonian: mk Џакарта f
Malay: ms Jakarta
Malayalam: ml ജക്കാർത്ത
Maltese: mt Ġakarta f
Marathi: mr जकार्ता
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Жакарта
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Jakarta n
Nynorsk: nn Jakarta n
Odia: or ଜାକର୍ତା
Pashto: ps جاکارتا f jākārtā
Persian:
Dari: prs جَاکَارْتَا
Iranian Persian: fa-ira جاکارْتا
Polish: pl Dżakarta f
Portuguese: pt Jacarta f
Romanian: ro Jakarta
Russian: ru Джака́рта f
Sanskrit: sa जयकर्ता jayakartā that which causes victory
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Џакарта f
Latin: sh Džakarta f
Sinhalese: si ජකාර්තා
Slovak: sk Jakarta f
Slovene: sl Džakarta f
Spanish: es Yakarta f
Swedish: sv Jakarta n
Tagalog: tl Jakarta
Tajik: tg Ҷакарта
Tamil: ta ஜகார்த்தா
Tatar: tt Җакарта
Telugu: te జకార్తా
Thai: th จาการ์ตา
Tibetan: bo ཊ་ཁར་ཏ
Turkish: tr Cakarta
Turkmen: tk Jakarta
Ukrainian: uk Джака́рта f
Urdu: ur جَکارْتَہ m
Uyghur: ug جاكارتا
Uzbek: uz Jakarta
Vietnamese: vi Gia-các-ta, vi Giang Lưu Ba
Welsh: cy Jakarta
Yiddish: yi דזשאַקאַרטאַ n
Afrikaans
Proper noun
af Djakarta
Betawi
bew:
Alternative forms
bew Jakartè Urban Jakarta
Etymology
bew ine-pro *gʷey- *kʷer-
Derives from bew sa जयकर्ता that which causes victory, from sa जय glory कर्ता doer, accomplisher 1.
Pronunciation
bew /d͡ʑakarta/
bew a
bew Ja kar ta
Proper noun
جاکرتا
bew Jakarta Q3630
bew Sunda Kelapa Jaketra Betawi
Derived terms
bew Jakarta Kowèk
Catalan
Etymology
ca :ubor id:Jakarta
ca id Jakarta.
Pronunciation
Djacàrta
Proper noun
m Jakarta
ca Jakarta Q3630
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Džakarta
Proper noun
f jakartský
cs Jakarta Q3630
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Indonesian
id:
Alternative forms
id Djakarta obsolete pre-1947 pre-1967
Etymology
id :der sa:जयकर्ता<ety:from<जय><कर्ता<ety:from<कृ<id:do>>>>> 1
id ine-pro *gʷey- *kʷer-
Derives from id sa जयकर्ता that which causes victory, from sa जय glory कर्ता doer, accomplisher 1.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
id proper noun
id Jakarta Q3630
id Sunda Kelapa Jayakarta Batavia
id metonym The Indonesian government.
Further reading
Malay
ms:
Pronunciation
jakâta Johor-Riau
ms arta ata 3
Baku
ms arta 3
jakâte Johor-Riau ms
ms artə atə 3
ms Ja kar ta
Proper noun
ms Jakarta Q3630
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt Jacarta
Slovak
sk:
Pronunciation
džakarta
Proper noun
f Jakarty žena
sk Jakarta Q3630
References
Vietnamese
vi:
Alternative forms
vi Gia-các-ta
Etymology
vi en Jakarta.
Pronunciation
Gia-các-ta
Proper noun
vi Jakarta Q3630