Akkadian

ḫubūsu - a belt or a part of it (Arkhipov 2012:108‒109)

OB Mari. Probably, related to this PWS root *ḥbš, and if so, is considered to be the earliest witness of the root (Kogan 2015:209).

PCS

*ḥbš - to tie, to band (Kogan 2015: 209)

Akk abšānu compared to this root in LSyr. 213 and elsewhere, is borrowed from Sum. abšu ‘a strap or band,’ hapax legomenon in a late lexical list, it is more likely to be a WS (loan)word