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Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
pˁl - day laborer, worker
(DJPA 442)
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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”