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Makk

Makk (plural mukūk), also spelled mak, mek or meek, is a title formerly used in the Sudan, meaning "ruler" or "king". There are three theories of its origins. It may be a corruption of the Arabic word malik (pl. mulūk), meaning "king"; it may descend from Meroitic mk, meaning "God", appropriate to the divine kingship practised in the Sudan; or, as E. A. Wallis Budge proposed, it may be derived from Ge'ez መከሐ (mkḥ), meaning "to be glorious", making it an Ethiopian import. The territory ruled by a makk may be called a "makkdom" or "mekdom" in English.The title makk was used for the ruler of the Funj Sultanate and for all his vassal rulers in the region of Sennar. It was used by the ruler of Taqali, whose tributaries were also known as mukūk al-ʿāda (sing. makk … more »