ملکہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmə.lɪ.käː/

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

1. queen
2. (chess) queen

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

1. a female given name, Malikah or Malika, from Arabic

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “ملِکہ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian ملکه (malika), from Arabic مَلِكَة (malika), feminine of مَلِك (malik, “king”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mə.lɪ.kɑ(ː)/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /məl.kɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: مَ‧لِ‧کَہ

مَلِکَہ • (malika) f (masculine مَلِک (malik) or بادْشاہ (bādśāh), Hindi spelling मलिका)

1. queen

   Synonyms: مَہَارانی (mahārānī), رانی (rānī), سُلْطَانَہ (sultāna)

   میرِی خوابوں کی مَلِکَہ ― merī xvābõ kī malika ― queen of my dreams

2. the queen bee
3. (chess) queen

• “ملکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ملکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ملکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ملکه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1065
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ملکه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “ملکه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC