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Geez
faḫara - to engage, to betroth, to espouse
(CDG 158)
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*pḫr
- to assemble
(Kogan 2015:28)
Aramaic lexemes with the root pḥr meaning ‘assembly’ are usually thought to be Akkadisms (Kaufman 1974:83).