Akkadian

parāšu - to flatter, cajole (CAD P 180, AHw. 832)

Derived words: paršu ‘flattering’ (CAD P 205).

Cf. Arb. frš ‘to lie’, (IV) ‘to speak an evil of somebody in his absence’, (VIII) ‘to treat one’s honour as a thing which is allowable to attack, by speaking evil of him’.