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Syriac
ḥbārtā - wound
(LSyr. 212, SL 410)
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PS
*ḥVbVr-
- spot on the skin, bruise, mark of violence
(SED I No. 111; Kogan 2011: 230)
Likely connected with Sem. *ḥbr ‘to paint, dye, mark’, *ḥVbr- ‘color, paint, mark’