*parḫ- - chick, brood, young of a bird
(SED II No. 179)
Almost certainly connected with this this root are the MSA terms for
“bastard”: Mhr. farḫ, Jib. fɛrḫ, Soq. forḥ, likely Arb. borrowings, cf. farḫ
‘bastard’ in dialect of Hadramaut
Traditionally identified with Sem. verb *prs ‘to divide; break’ (cf., for example, HALOT 969); this looks a typical folk etymology as even in the Bible, this term conspicuously denotes both divided and non-divided hoof.