Malik is a Semitic word meaning "king" or "chieftain", and a Greenlandic meaning "wave".
Malik or Maalik may also refer to:
People
Communities and tribes
Muslim rulers often bestowed the title of Malik on loyal tribal leaders and chieftains in South Asia:
- Malik (Jat), a Jat clan found in the Indian state of Haryana
- Malik caste, a Punjabi Muslim tribe
- Malik (Kashmir), a Kashmiri kram or tribe
Places
- Malik, Cambodia, commune, north east Cambodia
- Malik, Croatia, a village near Bosiljevo, Croatia
- Malik, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Maliq, a town and a municipality in Korçë County, Albania
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Malik Al-Sayf, a character from the video game series Assassin's Creed
- Malik Begum, a character from the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Malik Caesar, a character in the 2009 video game Tales of Graces
- Marik Ishtar, known as "Malik Ishtar" in Japanese (マリク・イシュタール), a character from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
- Malik Wright, a character from the American comedy-drama television series The Game
- Faridah Malik, a character from the 2011 video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Meera Malik, a character from the 2013 TV series The Blacklist
- Sarita Malik, a character from the 2009 TV series V
- Malik Cummings, a character from Legends of Chamberlain Heights
- Malik, a character from Work It Out Wombats!
Films
- Maalik (1972 film), an Indian Hindi drama film
- Maalik (2016 film), a Pakistani political-thriller film
- Malik (film), a 2021 Indian Malayalam political action film
Music
- Malik, a 1975 album by the French funk-rock band Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Other uses
- Maalik, in Islam, the Hell / Purgatory guardian
- Storm Malik, a 2022 European windstorm
- MALIK Fraternity, a multicultural non-greek U.S. college fraternity
See also
- All pages with titles containing Malik
- Malach (disambiguation)
- Malak (disambiguation)
- Malaka (disambiguation)
- Malakh, a Somali title meaning war leader
- Malek (disambiguation)
- Malick (disambiguation)
- Malika (disambiguation)
- Mallik Island, in the Canadian Arctic
- Melek (disambiguation)
- Melik, a hereditary Armenian noble title
- Maliki (disambiguation)
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