jataka

English

Alternative forms

• Jataka

Etymology

From Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑːtəkə/

Noun

jataka (plural jatakas)

1. (Buddhism) Any of a large number of Indian tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha.
   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 4:

     In the centuries after the Buddha's life, many ordinary, non-literate Indians would have learned of him through Jatakas, popular morality tales about his imagined previous lives […]

Translations

tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ဇာတ်တော် (jattau), ဇာတက (jata.ka.), ဇာတ် (my) (jat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 本生 (zh) (běnshēng)

• Finnish: jataka
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: जातक (hi) (jātak)
• Japanese: ジャータカ (jātaka)
• Khmer: ជាតក (km) (ciədɑk)
• Korean: 자타카 (jataka)
• Lao: ຊາດົກ (sā dok)
• Lü: ᦋᦱᦷᦡᧅ (tsaaḋok)
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: цадиг (mn) (cadig)
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Rakhine: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: джа́таки f pl (džátaki)
• Sanskrit: जातक (sa) (jātaka)
• Shan: ၸႃႇတၵ
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ชาดก (th) (chaa-dòk)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese jātaka, from Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaˈtaka/
• Hyphenation: ja‧ta‧ka

Noun

jataka (first-person possessive jatakaku, second-person possessive jatakamu, third-person possessive jatakanya)

1. Old Javanese fable.

Related terms

• jati

 

Further reading

• “jataka” 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.