Syriac

hll - (aph.) to scoff, mock; to despise, disdain; to praise (LSyr. 176, SL 344)

PS
*hll - to be imbecile, weak-minded, mad; be mocked at (SED I No. 19ᵥ)
Originally rather a biconsonantal stem. Note various ways of triconsonantization in Eth. and a full reduplication in Arb. and Soq.