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While not there in the flesh, #sblaar20 and #iqsa2020 got me in a comparative mood between Hebrew and Arabic. I was reading some Zamaḫšarī's mufaṣṣal today and noticed an interesting comment on hollow root active participles, which may provide a link with Hebrew. 
"As for the weakness in the active participle of those like qāla 'to say' and bāʿa 'to sell', the second root consonant is to be replaced with a hamzah, as in your speech qāʾilun 'saying', bāʾiʿun 'selling', and sometimes it is removed like your speech: šākun 'thorny'"
So while the normal pattern of such hollow roots active participles CāʾiC, there is at least one exceptional case where we find a pattern CāC. This caught my attention, because Hebrew has an unusual active participle for hollow roots that looks very similar to this.
