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Ebla
ma-ba-a-su /maplašu/ - a drill (to pierce the head)
(VE 1216, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 684)
Reconstruction
PS
*plš
- to pierce
(EDA I 299)
May be the same root as
pls
‘to destroy’