malik

nounnouncommon in dialogue

A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.

noun

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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.
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.

noun

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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 relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.

Forms

plural: maliks

malice · Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way.…malicious · Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.malignant · Harmful, malevolent, injurious.

malik · A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.

Malik · A male given name from Arabic.mall · A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.Mallory · An English surname from Old French.

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