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say it: MAL-ik
malik is a noun meaning "the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent". It carries one recorded sense.
the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent
“maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords”
Asia Minor · India
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for malik come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.