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Tigre
fäˁalä - to weave; to do mischief, to invent (lies)
(WTS 671)
hardly an Arabism
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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”