From a noun form ofArabicمَلَكَ(malaka).[1]
mamlaka classVI (plural only)
- authority (power to enforce rules or give orders)
- dominion
This word is morphologically plural but semantically singular. If a plural sense is required, it may be put in then class.
- ^Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020),Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten;145), Leiden • Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page281 Nr. 2658