jataka
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English
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Etymology
From Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jataka (plural jatakas)
- (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
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Javanese jātaka, from Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jataka (first-person possessive jatakaku, second-person possessive jatakamu, third-person possessive jatakanya)
- Old Javanese fable.
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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.