Probably it’s older than pastaz.

There’s plenty more on the internet if you look: hamal is the word Turks use for a porter down at the harbour, or a stevedore on the docks.

It’s the same word in Maltese – and like ‘pastaz’ it eventually came to mean a rough or rude person, and the originally meaning was lost.

Ghandek ragun tahseb u titkellem hekk. Inti ghax ma tmurx tara r-repeat ta’ Xarabank? Hemmhekk jittrattaw suggetti serji u bis-sens, mhux bhal hewn.

Hamallu is a word from the ports of the eastern Mediterranean.