سطع

سَطَعٌ ذ Length of neck. (S.) It is said of Mo- hammad, فِى عُنُقِهِ سَطَعٌ In his neck was length. (TA.) [See أَسْطَعُ.] -A2- A clapping with the hands, or striking with one hand upon the other, or upon the hand of another: (K:) or a striking a thing with the palm of the hand, or with the fingers. (TA.) And The sound of a striking or throwing: as in the saying, سَمِعْتُ لِوَقْعِهِ سَطَعًا شَدِيدًا [ I heard, in consequence of its falling, a loud sound of a striking or throwing ]. (K.) It is with fet-h to the medial radical because it is an onomatopœia, not an epithet nor an inf. n., for onomatopœias are sometimes made to differ [in form] from epithets. (Lth, K.)