Talk:Malik (name)

The origin of the name is Arabic and actually means king. The other origins, e.g. Hindu,cannot be taken as such given that during centuries of Muslim domination adoption of Arabic names, titles, and numerous loan words, have entered the languages and nomenclatures of the many indigenous communities such as Hungarian, Hindu etc. Therefore, the etymology of the term Malik/Malick needs to be included, along with its meaning,at the beginning of the article.Moarrikh (talk) 13:41, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

That the surname comes from Arabic ("king") is very dubious in the case of Slavs with that name. It may as well be native Slavic ("small" etc) or be from any of the 100+ of non-Slavic languages spoken in Russia and short of a definitive reference being provided every such language must be considered because that route is still more probable than Arabic Asmrulz (talk) 18:35, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

sooo 166.91.253.37 (talk) 18:05, 19 September 2023 (UTC)