Malik
[məˈliːk]Meaning
means "king" in Arabic; also means "wave, sea" in Greenlandic
Background Story
Malik is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic and as M-L-K in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze Age. In Islamic tradition الملك (al-Malik) is one of the 99 names of Allah, and the name can also be another way of transcribing مالك. The female version is Malikah, meaning "queen". The name is used in Persian and Turkish, and a separate Greenlandic name Malik means "wave, sea".
Variations
malek, malyk
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