Hebrew

Alternative forms

• הבטלה

Noun

אַבְטָלָה • ‎(avtalá) f

1. idleness, waste.
2. unemployment.

See also

• בָּטַל ‎(batál, “(literary) to lie idle”)

References

• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons