Usually compared to Common Aramaic
*npḳ ‘to go out’ and related
terms elsewhere in Semitic. Semantically
more suitable can be, however, Arb.
wfq ‘to be right, agreeable with what was
wished,’ (II) ‘to accommodate, to adapt, to dispose’, which would
imply an original basic meaning “to fit,” “to be suitable,” “to be available.”
(Kogan 2015: 302)