Mek Definition

Mek Sentence Examples

• The mek, promising compliance, invited Ismail and his chief officers to a feast in his house, around which he had piled heaps of straw.

• Several roads from Kordofan converge on the Nile at this point, and near the station is the residence of the mek, or king, of the Shilluk tribe, whose designation of the post was adopted when it was decided to abandon the use of Fashoda.

• The Nubas are split into many tribes, each under a mek or king, who is not uncommonly of Arab descent.

• In 1822, however, Ismail and his chief followers were treacherously burnt to death at Shendi by order of the mek (ruler) of the town, in revenge for the cruelties committed by the Egyptians.

• In October 1822 Ismail was, with his retinue, burnt to death by Nimr, the mek (king) of Shendi; and the defterdr, a man infamous for his cruelty, assumed the command of those provinces, and exacted terrible retribution from the innocent inhabitants.