hartal
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈhɑː.tɑːl/(UK)
Definition of hartal
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Malaysia, South-Asia)the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike.
“There were slight disturbances in Karachi and Bombay city, a hartal in Bombay city similar to the last one but probably helped by the news of Tilak's death, […]”
“One of the special characteristics of Bangladesh politics is hartal politics, a legacy of tactics of political agitation, which was used, in pre-partition India […]”
“The eight-month-long hadtal and the accompanying hijrat or exodus reflect the collective strength of the Mahajan and their capacity to mobilize and organize.”
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Etymology
Borrowed, via Hindi हड़ताल (haṛtāl), from Gujarati હડતાળ (haḍtāḷ), હડતાલ (haḍtāl), literally “locking of shops”.
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