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Mehri
ḥábə́r - spot of a darker colour (on the skin)
(ML 165)
Reconstruction
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’