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malik

US/məˈlik/

malik noun: a tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.

Noun (1)

malik (plural maliks)

  1. A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.
    • 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.2012, Kimberly Marten, Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 41
  2. A tribal chieftain in modern Assyrian society.
    • The leader of this party was Khoshaba, one of the chiefs, though not the real malik of the Lower Tiyari clan.1935, Ronald Sempill Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq

Noun (2)

malik (plural maliks)

  1. An upper-caste landlord in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India.
    • […] 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...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...

Proper noun capitalized: Malik

Malik (plural Maliks)

  1. A male given name from Arabic.
  2. A surname from Arabic.

malik meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

malik in Hindi

मलिक

malik in Tamil

மாலிக், மலிக்

malik in Marathi

मलिक

malik in Urdu

مالیک
More languagesFewer languages
malik in Telugu
మాలిక్, మలిక్
malik in Malayalam
മാലിക്, മലിക്
malik in Kannada
ಮಲಿಕ್, ಮಾಲಿಕ್
malik in Punjabi
ਮਲਿਕ
malik in Gujarati
મલિક
malik in Odia
ମଲିକ୍, ମଲିକ, ମାଲିକ୍
malik in Nepali
मलिक

Forms of malik

Noun
pluralmaliks
Proper noun
pluralMaliks

Plural of malik: maliks

Origin of malik

From Arabic مَالِك (mālik) and مَلِك (malik, “Leader”).

Words formed from malik

Words that rhyme with malik

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Questions about malik

What does malik mean?
Malik means a tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.
What is malik in Hindi?
Malik in Hindi is मलिक. See Malik meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is malik?
Malik can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce malik?
Malik is pronounced /məˈlik/ (US).
What is the plural of malik?
The plural of malik is maliks.

Words near malik in the dictionary

  1. Maligue
  2. Malihabad
  3. malihini
  4. malihinis
  5. Malii Oleksin
  6. malik
  7. Malika
  8. malikana
  9. malikanas
  10. Maliki
  11. Malikis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malik (page history and authors); Malik (page history and authors); malik (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); malik (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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