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Syriac
bsr - to rebuke, to put to shame
(LSyr. 81, SL 167)
Reconstruction
PArm
*bsr
- to put to shame, to despise
(EDA I 440)
Probably a metaphoric meaning shift “to make bad fame of someone, to spread bad rumors about one” occured.