Makk (plural mukūk), also spelled mak, mek or meek,[1][2] 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";[3] it may descend from Meroitic mk, meaning "God", appropriate to the divine kingship practised in the Sudan;[2][3][4] 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.[5] The territory ruled by a makk may be called a "makkdom" or "mekdom" in English.[6]