# malik
## English
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ultimately from Arabic, but via Pashto?”)

#### Noun

malik (plural maliks)
* A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.
** 2012, Kimberly Marten, Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 41:These outsiders introduced the idea that certain maliks in the nang areas, like the khans in the qalang areas, could receive special privileges in representing the jirga to the outside world. ¶ The notion of paying favored maliks in the FATA for their cooperation did not begin with the British.
* A tribal chieftain in modern Assyrian society.
** 1935, Ronald Sempill Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq‎:The leader of this party was Khoshaba, one of the chiefs, though not the real malik of the Lower Tiyari clan.

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

malik (plural maliks)
* An upper-caste landlord in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India.
** 1991, Gyan Prakash, “Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India”, in Douglas Haynes, Gyan Prakash, editors, Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 145:[…] the essay interprets the oral traditions of the outcaste Bhuinyas who have traditionally worked as the kamias or dependent labourers of maliks or upper-caste landlords in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India. […] But the kamias' ties with the maliks predated the designation of the relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.

##### Related terms

* malikana

### Anagrams

* likam

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Arabic مَالِك (mālik).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

malik (definite accusative maliyi, plural maliklər)
* owner

#### Declension
### Predicative

malik
* (with dative) to possess
    Synonym: sahib

#### Conjugation

*imək (“to be”) being a defective verb, its missing forms are supplied by the present simple copulas (appearing as suffixes), and by olmaq. The actual infinitive form would be malik olmaq, as the verb olmaq serves as infinitive form of *imek and itself.

#### Usage notes

The possessor is in the nominative case, whereas the possession is in the dative case: O böyük sərvətə malik idi. ― He possessed a lot of wealth. POSESSOR POSESSION VERB o böyük sərvət-ə malik idi 3SG big wealth-DAT posessor was

### References

* “malik” in Obastan.com.

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *malǝɣ (“wave, rough sea”), from Proto-Eskimo *mal(i)- (“wave”). Compare mallerpoq (“the sea has risen”).

### Noun

malik (plural mallit)
* wave

#### Declension
### References

* malik in Katersat

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay malik, from Arabic مَالِك (mālik).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.lɪʔ/
* Rhymes: -lɪʔ
* Hyphenation: ma‧lik

### Noun

malik (plural malik-malik)
* owner
* master
    Synonym: tuan
* king; ruler
    Synonym: raja

#### Related terms

* malaikat
* milik
* muluk

### Further reading

* “malik” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Maranao
### Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مَلِك (malik).

### Noun

malik
* king

### References

* A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مالك (malik), from Arabic مَالِك (mālik).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mǎlik/
* Hyphenation: ma‧lik

### Noun

màlik m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀лик)
* (regional, obsolete) master, ruler

### References

* “malik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /maˈlik/ [mɐˈlik̚]
* Rhymes: -ik
* Syllabification: ma‧lik

### Verb

malík (complete nalik, progressive nanalik, contemplative babalik, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜒᜃ᜔) (obsolete)
* Apheretic form of bumalik (infinitive): to return

#### Derived terms

* malikmata

### Anagrams

* klima