paruktu - curtain, sail (CAD P 210, AHw 837)

Probably a loanword from Aramaic, cf. Hbr. pārōkät “curtain” (HALOT 968), JPA pārūkā id. (DJPA 445), JBA proktā id. (DJBA 934), Syr. parktā “velum” (LSyr. 597). For a critical assessment of this comparison see Abraham; Sokoloff 2011, 44.