Sikhism

English

Etymology

From Sikh +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɪzm̩/, /ˈsɪk-/

Proper noun

Sikhism

A revealed, monotheistic religion originating in northern India, in the 15th century, through Guru Nanak and his successors.

Hypernyms

religion

Coordinate terms

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 (ja) (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) (skh mt)

References

“Sikhism” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
“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.