Sikhism

English

Etymology

Sikh +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɪzm̩/, /ˈsɪk-/

Proper noun

Sikhism

1. A revealed, monotheistic religion originating in northern India, in the 16th century, through Guru Nanak and his successors.

Hypernyms

• religion

Coordinate terms

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Tengrism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Translations

religion

• Arabic: سِيخِيَّة f (sīḵiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: سيخ (sīx)

• Aragonese: sikhismo m
• Bengali: শিখধর্ম (bn) (śikhodhormo)
• Bulgarian: сикхизъм m (sikhizǎm)
• Catalan: sikhisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 錫克教／锡克教 (sik³ hak¹ gaau³, sek³ hak¹ gaau³)

  Hakka: 錫克教／锡克教 (siak-khiet-kau)

  Mandarin: 錫克教／锡克教 (zh) (xíkèjiào)

• Czech: sikhismus (cs) m
• Danish: sikhisme c
• Dhivehi: ސިކުންގެދީން (sikun̊gedīn̊)
• Dutch: sikhisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: sikismo, siĥismo
• Finnish: sikhiläisyys (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: siquismo m
• French: sikhisme (fr) m
• Galician: sikhismo (gl) m
• Georgian: სიქიზმი (ka) (sikizmi)
• German: Sikhismus m
• Hebrew: סיקיזם m (Siqizm)
• Hindi: सिख धर्म m (sikh dharm), नानकपंथ (hi) m (nānakpanth)
• Hungarian: szikhizmus (hu)
• Indonesian: Sikhisme
• Japanese: シク教 (シクきょう, shiku kyō)
• Kashmiri: سِکھ مَت (sikh mat)
• Korean: 시크교 (sikeugyo)
• Latin: Sichismus
• Latvian: sikhisms m
• Lithuanian:

  Aukštaitian: Sikhizmas m

  Samogitian: Sikėzmos m

• Malay: Sikhisme
• Marathi: शीख धर्म m (śīkh dharma)
• Newar: सिख धर्म (sikha dharma)
• Persian: سیک (fa)
• Polish: sikhizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: sikhismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ (pa) (sikkhī)
• Romanian: sikhism
• Russian: сикхи́зм (ru) m (sikxízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сикизам m, сикхизам m

  Roman: sikizam m, sikhizam m

• Slovene: sikhizem m
• Spanish: sijismo
• Swahili: Kalasinga, Usikh
• Thai: ศาสนาซิกข์ (th), ศาสนาสิกข์
• Urdu: سکھ مت
• Western Panjabi: سکھ مت (pnb)

References

• “Sikhism” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• “Sikhism”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• "Sikhism" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.