Malik (surname)
Malik is a Hindu and Muslim surname meaning "king" from a title meaning ‘lord’, ‘ruler’, ‘chief’, from Arabic malik ‘king’. In the subcontinent this is often found as a title for the headman of a village. In Islam Al-Malik ‘the King’ is one of the attributes of Allah, regarded as ‘the king of mankind’ (Qur’an 114:2), and this word is used in combination in names such as ?Abd-ul Malik ‘servant of the King’. This was the name of an Umayyad khalif (685–705).
Malik is also a surname in Eastern Europe derived from the vocabulary word meaning ‘small’ (Russian malen'kiy, Polish maly, Czech malý ‘small’, Slovenian mali).
Notable people
- Keshav Malik, an Indian poet, critic, arts scholar, and curator
- Ved Prakash Malik, 19th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
- Anu Malik
- Satya Pal Malik
- Zayn Malik, English singer and songwriter
- Shoiab Malik, cricketer Pakistan
- Shaukat Malik, INA colonel
- Shaon Malik, right wing nationalist in India
- Jasmine Malik, won the Cutest E-girl Award 2020
- Yakov Malik, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations between 1948 and 1976
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