Malik (name)

Malik, Maleek, Malek or Malyk is a given name and surname. It can be an Anglicization of two different Semitic names. In Arabic the name: مَالِك, meaning "Owner", and مَلِك, meaning "King", and it has a similar meaning ("prince", "chief" etc.) among Assyrians and Mandeans[1]. The name has also been in use among historically pre-Arab Semitic speaking peoples since the Bronze Age in various forms such as Malka, Malku and examples can be found in Akkadian (aka Assyrian, Babylonian), Aramaic, Hebrew, Amorite, Phoenician and Syriac among others. It is also of unrelated West Slavic origin from the Polish word "mały" meaning "small" and found in Czech and Slovak names such as Malík.[2]

Malik
PronunciationArabic: [maː.lɪk]
"Ma-Leek"
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameArabic or Greenlandic (unrelated)
MeaningOwner (مَالِك)
King (مَلِك) Wave (Greenlandic)
Other names
Alternative spellingMalek, Maleek, Malick, Maalek, Mallik, Malyk
Related namesMalik, Melech

People with the name

Given name

Malik

Malick

  • Malick Badiane (born 1984), Senegalese basketball player
  • Malick Mane (born 1988), Senegalese footballer
  • Malick Sidibé (1935/36–2016), Malian photographer
  • Malick Sy (1855–1922), Senegalese Sufi leader

Maleek

  • Maleek Berry (born 1987), British record producer and recording artist
  • Maleek Irons (born 1996), Canadian football player

Malyk

Surname

Malik

Malick

Fictional characters

  • Malek the Paladin, a fictional character from the video game series Legacy of Kain
  • Malik Al-Sayf, a fictional character from the video game series Assassin's Creed
  • Malik Begum, the main protagonist of the British web series Corner Shop Show played by Islah Abdur-Rahman
  • Malik Caesar, a fictional character in the 2009 video game Tales of Graces
  • Faridah Malik, a fictional character from the 2011 video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • Sally Malik, a fictional character in the television series Being Human
  • Malik Wright, a character from the American comedy-drama television series The Game (since 2006)

References

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