Malik
Malik, Malik or Maalik is a male first name and a family name.
Origin and Meaning
Malik (Arabic: الملك ) is Arabic and means king. Already in pre-Islamic Arabia contributed some tribal chiefs this item, for Beispieh ibn ʿ Alī Haudha, the head of the Banū Hanifa. In Armenia, Malik is a title of nobility.
The name Malik or Malik also exists in Slavic (eg Czech Republic) and means in Czech pinky; in Bulgarian малък ( malək ) means small. The female form is Malika. The Turkish version of the name is Melik. The name Malik also occurs in Greenland, the Greenland meaning is " wave".
Variants
- Malick
- Malika (female)
- Malek
- Melik
Bearers of the name
Family name
- Abdul Malik ( born 1968 ), Singaporean football referee
- Abdul Malik Motaleb (1905-1977), Pakistani diplomat and politician
- Adam Malik (1917-1984), Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister of Indonesia
- Ahmed Abdul -Malik (1927-1993), American jazz musician
- Anu Malik ( born 1960 ), Indian composer
- Art Malik ( born 1952 ), British- Pakistani actor
- Batyr Malik (1129-1185), King of Kyrgyzstan
- Charles Malik (1906-1987), Lebanese politician, president of the thirteenth UN General Assembly (1958 )
- Ewa Malik ( b. 1961 ), Polish politician
- Fredmund Malik ( born 1944 ), Austrian economist
- Hanzala Malik ( born 1956 ), Scottish politician
- Ibn Maalik (1205-1274), Spanish - Arab scholar
- Yakov Alexandrovich Malik (1906-1980), a Soviet diplomat and politician
- Janusz Malik (born 1964 ), Polish ski jumper
- Julia Malik (born 1976 ), German actress
- Kenan Malik ( born 1960 ), British journalist
- Marek Malik ( born 1975 ), Czech ice hockey player
- Omar Hayat Malik (1894-1982), Pakistani diplomat
- Osama Malik (* 1990), Australian football player
- Raphe Malik (1948-2006), American free jazz trumpeter
- Rehman Malik ( born 1951 ), Pakistani politicians
- Richard Malik (1909-1945), German football player
First name
- Maalik ibn Anas ( 715-795 ), founder of the Maliki school of law ( madhhab )
- Malik Allen ( born 1978 ), American basketball player
- Malik Ambar (1549-1626), Indian Prime Minister Ethiopian origin
- Malik Beširević (* 1972), German handball player
- Malik Buari ( born 1984 ), Ghanaian- English footballer
- Malik Fathi (* 1983), German football player
- Malik Dohan al -Hasan (* 1920), Iraqi politicians
- Nidal Malik Hasan (born 1970 ), American military psychiatrist
- Malik Jabir ( b. 1944 ), Ghanaian football player and coach
- Malik Joyeux (1980-2005), Tahitian big wave surfer
- Malik Mezzadri (born 1969 ), French jazz flutist
- Malik Migara ( * 19 **), Sri Lankan football player
- Malik Moore (born 1976 ), American basketball player
- Malik Muadh ( born 1981 ), Saudi Arabian football player
- Malik Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970), Pakistani politicians
- Malik Rahim ( b. 1948 ), American anti-racist
- Malik Rose ( born 1974 ), American basketball player
- Malik Ruddigkeit (* 1973), German basketball player
- Alhaji Malik Alhassan Yakubu ( * 19 **), Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament in Ghana
Dissemination
In the years 2000-2003 Malik was the most popular boys name in Greenland.
Others
- Malik -Verlag, publisher of German avant-garde art and Communist literature (1916-1947)
- New Malik Verlag, German publisher (1983-1996)
- MALIK, an imprint of Piper Verlag (since 1996)
- Malik (Islam), figure in Islam
- Malik, a manufacturer of hockey equipment