Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

pšṭ - to spread, to straighten, to stretch out (DJBA 942)

PNWS
*pšṭ - to spread, to stretch; to strip off, to separate (EDA I)

May be related to Arb. bsṭ ‘to spread, to expand with an irregular mutation of labials in Arb. (Kogan 2015:477).