Var. baḳānu.
Derived words: baḳmu, baḳnu ‘plucked’ (CAD B 100, AHw. 105); biḳnu ‘(what has been) plucked, pluckings’ (CAD B 244, AHw. 127, CDA 44); bāḳimu ‘plucker’ (CAD B 100, AHw. 1547); buḳāmu ‘(lamb) ready for plucking’ (CAD B 322, AHw. 139); buḳḳumtu (a plant(?), lit. plucked) (SAD I); buḳḳumu ‘(lamb) ready for plucking’ (CAD B 325); buḳūmu, buḳūnu ‘wool plucking; wool yield’ (CAD B 325, AHw. 139).
Comp. Arb. buqāmat- ‘wool whose essential part has been spun and the rest is left’.