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hartal

/ˈhɑː.tɑːl/

hartal noun: the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike.

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
    • 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 […]2004, Salahuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh: Past and Present, page 34

hartal meaning in Tamil and Bengali

hartal in Tamil

கடையடைப்பு, கண்டன வேலை நிறுத்தம்

hartal in Bengali

hartal
হরতাল hortal

Forms of hartal

pluralhartals
alternative formhadtal

Origin of hartal

Borrowed, via Hindi हड़ताल (haṛtāl), from Gujarati હડતાળ (haḍtāḷ), હડતાલ (haḍtāl), literally “locking of shops”.

Questions about hartal

What does hartal mean?
Hartal means the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike.
What is hartal in Tamil?
Hartal in Tamil is கடையடைப்பு, கண்டன வேலை நிறுத்தம். See Hartal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hartal?
Hartal is a noun.
How do you pronounce hartal?
Hartal is pronounced /ˈhɑː.tɑːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of hartal?
The plural of hartal is hartals.

Words near hartal in the dictionary

  1. hart's ear
  2. Hart's line
  3. hart's pennyroyal
  4. hart's tongue
  5. hart's tongues
  6. hartal
  7. hartals
  8. hartbees
  9. hartbeest
  10. hartbeests
  11. Hartburn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hartal (page history and authors); hartal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); হরতাল (Bengali) (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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