slap · palm of the hand · a board/plank placed under the lower beam of an upright loom
köken: Cognate with Turkish şaplak. Likely from earlier *çapalaq, from çapmaq (“to cut, chop”), which has in its current meaning not preserved the original sense "to hit" reconstructed for Proto-Turkic *čap- (“to beat, hit; attack; rob”).
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic страшьнъ (strašĭnŭ, “terrible, horrible, feared”), from Proto-Slavic *strašьnъ (“terrible, frightening”), from *straxъ (“terror, fear”) + *-ьnъ (adjectival suffix).
köken: Of unknown origin. Originally used by Romans to refer to the strike given from master to slave upon manumission as a final act of indignity. First attested in Phaedrus when the Empire was already greatly expanded, then in the Semitic loanword-ridden Juvenal and largely attested in the Christian writings, i. e. from the proponents of a Semitic religion. Hence, probably from Aramaic אַלַּף (allap̄,…
köken: Originally as a reference to Bitka pri Világoši (“Surrender at Világos”) and its subsequent expressive phrase dostať világoš.
Decká dostali taký zaslúžený világoš.
Etimoloji
From past participle of fesser (“to spank”), originally "to strike"; the verb was influenced in both form and sense by the unrelated fesse (“buttock”).