Sikhism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha)bor.

English Sikh

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English Sikhism

From Sikh + -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɪzm̩/, /ˈsɪk-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Sikhism

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

Hypernyms

• religion

Coordinate terms

religionsedit

• Adonism
• agnosticism
• Asatru
• atheism
• Ayyavazhi
• Baháʼí Faith
• Bon
• Buddhism
• Cao Dai
• Cheondoism
• Christianity
• deism
• Dievturiba
• Druidry
• Druze
• Eckankar
• Feraferia
• 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
• Zuism

Translations

religion

• Arabic: سِيخِيَّة f (sīḵiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: سيخ (sīx)

• Aragonese: sikhismo m
• Bengali: শিখধর্ম (bn) (śikhodhormo)
• Bulgarian: сикхизъм m (sikhizăm)
• 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 (de) 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)

  Western Punjabi: سکھ مت (pnb) (skh mt)

• Romanian: sikhism
• Russian: сикхи́зм (ru) m (sikxízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сикизам m, сикхизам m

  Latin: sikizam m, sikhizam m

• Slovene: sikhizem m
• Spanish: sijismo
• Swahili: Kalasinga, Usikh
• Tamil: சீக்கியம் (cīkkiyam)
• Thai: ศาสนาซิกข์ (th), ศาสนาสิกข์
• Urdu: سکھ مت

References

• “Sikhism”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026.
• “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.