The Proto-Semitic word pVr
Word pVr
Meaning break, axe, cut, separate
Synonyms ḳuṣ, pVriḳ

Comments
Kaye, Alan S. "Christopher Ehret. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary", University of California 2061

Other words that might be of interest
θ̣pr ‘nail, claw’, pʕl ‘to do’, hb ‘to hit’, ḳud ‘to cut, to tear’