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Mandaic
mhambla - a convulsed labouring woman
(MD 129)
Not distinguished from hbl, hmbl ‘to destroy’ [ibid.] (< *ḫbl).
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḥbl
- to be pregnant, conceive; to have labor pains
(SED I No. 21v; Kogan 2015: 189; HALOT 286)
cf. SED I Nos. 110 and 21ᵥ for its possible connection with the MSA terms for umbilical cord (such as Mhr.
ḥəblēt
) and, perhaps, PS
*ḥabl-
‘rope.