▪ 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 Hbr
1
but the Syr
mâlak (
PSm, 1989) is much more likely.«