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Akkadian
papḫaldaru - difficulty (?)
(CAD P 106, AHw. 824)
Attested once in a late lexical list, corresponding to Sum. PAB.ḪAL-la “difficulty(?)”. Probably a late “learned” loanword from Sumerian, but the ending -daru is difficult to explain.