Hebrew edit

Root
ב־ט־ל (b-ṭ-l)

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

אַבְטָלָה (avtaláf [pattern: אַקְטָלָה]

  1. idleness, waste.
  2. unemployment.

See also edit

References edit

  • 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