# Jakarta
## English
### Alternative forms

* Djakarta

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Jakarta
* A province and capital city of Indonesia.
    Synonym: (historical) Batavia
** 2006, Barack Obama, 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.
* (metonymically) The Indonesian government.
** 2010, Edward Herman, David Peterson, 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.

#### Derived terms

* Jakartan

#### Translations
## Afrikaans
### Proper noun

Jakarta
* Alternative form of Djakarta

## Catalan
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian Jakarta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [d͡ʒəˈkar.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [d͡ʒaˈkaɾ.ta]

### Proper noun

Jakarta m
* Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdʒakarta]

### Proper noun

Jakarta f (relational adjective jakartský)
* Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Jakarta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* Djakarta (dated, 1947–1972)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Jakarta
* Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

#### 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: /d͡ʒaka(r)tə/
* (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /d͡ʒaka(r)ta/
* Rhymes: -a(r)tə, -tə, -ə

### Proper noun

Jakarta
* Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Jakarta f
* Alternative spelling of Jacarta

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈd͡ʒakarta]

### Proper noun

Jakarta f (genitive singular Jakarty, declension pattern of žena)
* 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: [zaː˧˧ kaːk̚˧˦ taː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [jaː˧˧ kaːk̚˦˧˥ taː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [jaː˧˧ kaːk̚˦˥ taː˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: gia các ta

### Proper noun

Jakarta
* Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)