ملك

milk (inf. n. of ملك 'to possess,' etc.), s.f. Possession, dominion; property, right; landed property, estate (pl. amlāk); rent-free land; lands given to certain classes (as, 1˚the learned and their pupils; 2˚those who have abandoned the world; 3˚the helpless and destitute; 4˚decayed gentry; similar grants in money were termed waz̤īfa).