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Mehri
fəlān, fəlāni - such a one, such a man, such a woman
(ML 94)
a borrowing from Arabic
Reconstruction
PCS
*pulān-
- so and so
(Kogan 2015: 196)
for a possible connection with
*ply
‘to separate, to distinguish’ v. BDB 811