köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (pʾlk' /pārag/, “piece, part, portion”), also meaning "gift, offering, bribe". In the sense of "gift": from Proto-Iranian *pāraka (“gift, offering”), from *pāra- (“giving”) + *-ka (“suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- (“to give, provide”). Cognate with Sanskrit पॄ (pṝ, “to grant, bestow”), Ancient Greek ἔπορον (époron, “give, grant”), Old Irish ernaid…