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Syriac
pˁl - to work
(LSyr. 585, SL 1216)
Reconstruction
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”