Malik, Melik, Malka, Malek, Maleek, Malick, or Melekh (Phoenician: ????????????; Arabic: ملك; Hebrew: מֶלֶךְ) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze Age (e.g. Aramaic, Canaanite, Hebrew).. Although the early forms of the name were to be found among the pre-Arab and pre-Islamic Semites of ...