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hartals

hartals is the plural 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

Questions about hartals

What is hartals the plural of?
Hartals is the plural of hartal.

Words near hartals in the dictionary

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

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