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√MLK
▪ MLK_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ MLK_2 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ MLK_3 ‘Malik (the angel who has charge over Hell)’ ↗Mālik ♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to own, to acquire, owner, ownership, property; to rule, to reign, to control, kingdom, sovereignty, king; slave; foundations, essence, the heart; to marry, marriage ceremony; middle of the road, middle of the valley; angels; heavenly’.
▪ From WSem *√MLK ‘to rule, dominate, possess, own’ – Huehnergard2011.
▪ Classified under this root are words which may have had their origin in other Sem languages long before Islam. These are malak from Gz; mālik from Hbr; malakūt from Aram, and malik, together with mulk and malīk, from Akk – BAH2008
▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Mameluke, from Ar mamlūk ‘owned, slave, Mameluke’, PP of malaka, vb. I, ‘to own, possess’.
▪ Engl Melkite, Melchizedek, Moloch ↗malik.
▪ For n.geogr. Malaga, cf. ↗malāk.
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