- published: 17 Feb 2016
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Malik (Arabic: ملك ) is an Arabic and Northwest Semitic (eg Neo Aramaic) word meaning "king, chieftain". it is very similar to the Arabic name/ word malek مالِك
It has been adopted in various other, mainly Islamized or Arabized, Asian languages for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere. It is also sometimes used in derived meanings. 'Al-Malik' (literally 'The King') is one of the Names of Allah.
The female version of Malik is Malikah (Arabic: ملكة) (or its Persian language equivalent Malekeh), meaning "queen". The name Malik is also found among ethnic Assyrian Christians of Iraq, Iran and Turkey, and in India and Pakistan, for example, in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, and Delhi.
The Northwest Semitic mlk was the title of the rulers of the city-states of the Levant from the Late Bronze Age. The Biblical Hebrew form is מֶלֶךְ melek.
Moloch has been traditionally interpreted the epithet of a god, known as "the king" like Baal was an epithet "the master" and Adon an epithet "the lord", but in the case of Moloch purposely mispronounced as Molek instead of Melek using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth "shame".