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PWS
*pˁl - to do; to make
(Kogan 2015:380)
In Aramaic only marginally attested, mostly with the meaning “to work” In MSA > “to hurt someone”
Words
Ugaritic
bˁl
- to make, manufacture; to work
(DUL 204)
Phoenician
pˁl
- to do, make
(DNWSI 924)
Hebrew
pəˁullā
- wages, reward
(HALOT 951)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
pˁl
- work; wage; possessions
(DJPA 441)
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
pˁl
- day laborer, worker
(DJPA 442)
Syriac
pˁl
- to work
(LSyr. 585, SL 1216)
Syriac
pˁālā
- work
(LSyr. 586, SL 1216)
Syriac
pāˁlā
- laborer, workman
(LSyr. 586, SL 1216)
Arabic
fˁl
- to do; to make
(Lane 2420)
Sabaic
fˁl
- to make
(SD 43)
Qatabanian
fˁl
- to make, to do
(LIQ 130)
Tigre
fäˁalä
- to weave; to do mischief, to invent (lies)
(WTS 671)
hardly an Arabism
Mehri
fāl
- to hurt someone
(ML 86)
Jibbali
faˁál
- to hurt someone
(JL 51)