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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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MLK ملك 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MLK 
“root” 
▪ 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 
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▪ (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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malik مَلِك 
ID 837 • Sw – • BP 425 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MLK 
n. 
… – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From protSem *malk‑ ‘ruler, king’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘king’) Akk malku, Hbr méleḵ, Syr malkā, Gz (malākī ‘Herr’).
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Melkite, from Aram malkāye, pl. of malkāy ‘royal, royalist’, from malkā ‘king’. – Melchizedek, from Hbr malkî-ṣedeq ‘my king (is) righteousness’, from malk, presuffixal form of melek ‘king’ + -î ‘my’. – Moloch, from Hbr mōlek, from Can *mulk, perh. variant of Can *malk, *milk ‘king’, cf. Ar malik. 
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milkiyyaẗ مِلْكِيَّة 
ID 838 • Sw – • BP 2779 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MLK 
n.f. 
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malāk مَلاك 
ID 836 • Sw – • BP 2292 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MLK 
n. 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Malaga, from Lat Malaca, Malacha, from Phoen *malʔakat‑ ‘work(place) of (a god whose name has not been preserved)’, from *lʔk ‘to send, serve, work’, cf. Ar malʔak~malāk ‘angel’ (< Hbr malʔāk ‘messenger’, from Hbr *lāʔak ‘to send’). 
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mālik مالِك 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 3Jun2023
√MLK
 
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Malik, the angel who has charge over Hell – Jeffery1938 
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▪ eC7 Q xliii, 77 – Jeffery1938.
 
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▪ Jeffery1938: »The native authorities derived the name from malaka ‘to possess’, ‘rule over’. This root may have influenced the form, but the source is doubtless the Biblical Moloch. The Hbr form is mōläḵ, and it may possibly have come direct from Hbr1 but the Syr mâlak (PSm, 1989) is much more likely.«
 
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