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hadtal

hadtal is the alternative form of hartal.

Meaning of hartal

Noun

hartal (plural hartals)

  1. (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, […]1974, Judith M. Brown, Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922, page 305

Origin of hadtal

Borrowed directly from Gujarati હડતાળ (haḍtāḷ), હડતાલ (haḍtāl).

Questions about hadtal

What is hadtal the alternative form of?
Hadtal is the alternative form of hartal.

Words near hadtal in the dictionary

  1. Hadsell
  2. Hadsells
  3. Hadspen
  4. hadst
  5. hadta
  6. hadtal
  7. hadud
  8. Hadwiger
  9. Hadwiger's theorem
  10. Hadza
  11. Hadzic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hadtal (page history and authors); hartal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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