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Stage 1 of 4
hatta
Sanskrit · ancient
"market"
meant 'market'
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Stage 2 of 4
talaka
Sanskrit · ancient
"lock"
meant 'lock'
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Stage 3 of 4
hadtal
Gujarati · medieval
"the closing of shops and businesses in protest"
the compound came to mean closing shops in protest
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Stage 4 of 4
hartal
English · early 1900s
"a general strike or mass closure of businesses as protest"
entered English through Gandhi's independence movement, which popularized the mass protest strike
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