"melakhah" meaning in English

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        "tr": "mal'achá"
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          "ref": "1981, Isidor Grunfeld, The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance, page 59:",
          "text": "Thus, carrying an overcoat over one's shoulder is a melakhah, but wearing one is not.",
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          "ref": "2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 725:",
          "text": "Most categories of m'lakhah (activities prohibited on Shabbat and Yom Kippur) are also prohibited on the three pilgrimage festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah.",
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          "text": "I originally learned that it's a problem to use the head of a match here because of the chemical reaction involved, but I'm having trouble figuring out what the melacha would be.",
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        "Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat."
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        "(Judaism) Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat."
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