Mənası
Compounding of the elements ‘abd (servant of), al (the), and malik (king, sovereign). Al-Malik (the Sovereign) is one of the attributes of Allah. The name was borne by the fifth Umayyad caliph ‘Abd-al-Malik ibn-Marwan (635-705). He was responsible for making Arabic the administrative language of the empire and for seeing many new cities into existence. Var: ‘Abdel-Malik. (AHBD-AHL-MAL-IK)
