jataka

• Jataka

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑːtəkə/

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 […]

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

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

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

1. Old Javanese fable.

• “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.