fāliyat- - kind of insect similar to the scarab marked with black and white spots which usually accompanies or precedes scorpions or vipers
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Usually in combination fāliyatu l-ˀafāˁī ‘f. of the snakes’
Clearly related is the verbal root *ply ‘to delouse’ widely attested throughout Semitic.
Cf. Tna. ˁafäl ‘insects or fleas which live in grass’ (TED 1949). One wonders whether it could be directly compared to Akk. uplu (< *ˁupl-)?