malikとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

malik (plural maliks)

1. A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.
   • 2012, Kimberly Marten, Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

     These outsiders introduced the idea that certain maliks in the nang areas, like the khans in the qalang areas, could receive special privileges in representing the jirga to the outside world. ¶ The notion of paying favored maliks in the FATA for their cooperation did not begin with the British.

2. A tribal chieftain in modern Assyrian society.
   • 1935, Ronald Sempill Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq‎:

     The leader of this party was Khoshaba, one of the chiefs, though not the real malik of the Lower Tiyari clan.

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名詞

malik (plural maliks)

1. An upper-caste landlord in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India.
   • 1991, Gyan Prakash, “Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India”, in Douglas Haynes, Gyan Prakash, editors, Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     […] the essay interprets the oral traditions of the outcaste Bhuinyas who have traditionally worked as the kamias or dependent labourers of maliks or upper-caste landlords in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India. […] But the kamias' ties with the maliks predated the designation of the relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.

関連する語

• malikana

アナグラム

• likam