ملکہ

See also: ملكة, ملكه, and ملکه

Punjabi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmə.lɪ.käː/

Noun

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

1. queen
2. (chess) queen

Proper noun

مَلِکَہ • (malikah) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਲਿਕਾ)

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

See also

Chess pieces in Punjabi · شَطْرَن٘ج دے مُہرے (śat̤raṉj de muhre) (layout · text)
راجا (rājā) بادْشاہ (bādśāh)	وَزِیر (vazīr) راݨی (rāṇī)	ہاتھی (hāthī) رُخ (rux)	فِیلا (fīlā) فَرْضی (farẓī)	گھوڑا (ghoṛā)	پیادَہ (peyādah)

Further reading

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

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of ملکہ

	singular	plural
direct	مَلِکَہ (malikah)	مَلِکائیں (malikā'ẽ)
oblique	مَلِکَہ (malikah)	مَلِکاؤں (malikāõ)
vocative	مَلِکَہ (malikah)	مَلِکاؤ (malikāo)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root م ل ك (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

• “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