মুলুক

Bengali

Alternative forms
  • মুল্লুক (mulluk)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ملک (mulk), from Arabic مُلْك (mulk). Compare Malay muluk.

Noun

মুলুক • (muluk) (objective মুলুক (muluk) or মুলুককে (mulukoke), genitive মুলুকের (muluker), locative মুলুকে (muluke))

  1. jurisdiction, territory, kingdom

Further reading
  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 775.
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