SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
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’.