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pārōkät - curtain
(HALOT 968)
Probably a loanword from Aramaic, cf. 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.