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Syriac
ḥallīmā - healthy, strong
(LSyr. 235, SL 457)
Reconstruction
PCS
*ḥlm
- to become healthy, mature
(SED I 291)
Probably a semantic development ‘to become healthy, mature’ < ‘to attain puberty’ < ‘to have nocturnal ejaculations’?