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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑː.tɑːl/

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hartal (plural hartals)

1. (South Asia, Malaysia) the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike.
   • 1974, Judith M. Brown, Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922, page 305:

     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,

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

     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

   • 2005, Acyuta Yājñika, Suchitra Sheth, The Shaping of Modern Gujarat: Plurality, Hindutva, and Beyond:

     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.

• hadtal

• → Malay: hartal
  • Indonesian: hartal

• bandh

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhartal/
• Rhymes: -artal
• Syllabification: har‧tal

Inherited from Malay hartal, from Classical Malay هرتل (hartal), from Sanskrit हरिताल (haritāla, “yellow orpiment”) likely through Hindi.

hartal (plural hartal-hartal)

1. orpiment
2. (in extension) ochre: a somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.

   hartal:  

Borrowed from Hindi हड़ताल (haṛtāl), from Gujarati હડતાલ (haḍtāl), હડતાળ (haḍtāḷ), from Sanskrit हट्ट (haṭṭa) +‎ तालक (tālaka).

hartal (plural hartal-hartal)

1. the closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike

• “hartal” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhartal/
• Rhymes: -artal, -al
• Hyphenation: har‧tal

From Hindi हड़ताल (haṛtāl), from Gujarati હડતાલ (haḍtāl), હડતાળ (haḍtāḷ), from Sanskrit हट्ट (haṭṭa) +‎ तालक (tālaka).

hartal (Jawi spelling هرتل, plural hartal-hartal)

1. The closure of shops and offices, typically as a strike.

From Sanskrit हरिताल (haritāla, “yellow orpiment”) likely through Hindi.

hartal (plural hartal-hartal)

1. orpiment, a kind of yellow arsenic
2. (in extension) A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour; ochre.

   hartal:  

3. a kind of fragrant face powder made from coconut oil and saffron yielding a similar colour for use in weddings

   Synonyms: boreh, boris

• (orpiment) artal, retal

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “hartal”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 399

• “hartal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.