Makk (plural mukūk), also spelled mak, mek or meek,[1][2] is a title formerly used in the Sudan, meaning "ruler" or "king".
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.
[1] During the period of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium in the Sudan, the government used indirect rule, appointing and deposing many mukūk.
[8] Among the Nuba, the government made the "mek-in-council" (akin to the king-in-council), along with tribal hierarchies and federations, the basis of indirect rule.