Sikkim

English

Etymology

The most widely accepted theory is that it is a combination of two Limbu words: su, which means "new", and khyim, which means "palace" or "house". The name is believed to be a reference to the palace built by the state's first ruler, Phuntsog Namgyal. Compare Sikkimese སུ་ཁྱིམ (su khyim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkɪm/

• Audio (in the Limbu language)

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Proper noun

Sikkim

1. State in eastern India which has Gangtok as its capital.
2. (historical) A country in Asia that existed until 1975. Official name: Kingdom of Sikkim.

Synonyms

• Kingdom of Sikkim
• (historic) Indrakil, the garden of the war god Indra.

Hypernym

• eight sister states

Translations

state in eastern India which has Gangtok as its capital

• Arabic: سِيكِيم‎‎ m (sikīm)
• Armenian: Սիկկիմ (Sikkim)
• Assamese: ছিক্কিম (sikkim)
• Bengali: সিক্কিম (sikkim)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: সিকিম
• Chhattisgarhi: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錫金 (zh), 锡金 (zh) (Xī​jīn​), 錫金邦, 锡金邦 (Xī​jīn-bāng)

• Czech: Sikkim (cs) m
• Dhivehi: ސިއްކީމް‎‎ (sikīm)
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: Sikimo
• Georgian: სიკიმი (siḳimi)
• Gujarati: સિક્કિમ (sikkim)
• Hindi: सिक्किम (hi) (sikkim)
• Hungarian: Szikkim (hu)
• Japanese: シッキム州 (Sikkimu-shū), シッキム (Sikkimu)
• Kannada: ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಂ (kn) (sikkiṃ)
• Korean: 시킴 주 (ko) (Sikim ju), 시킴 (Sikim)
• Latvian: Sikima
• Lepcha: please add this translation if you can
• Limbu: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: Sikimas
• Malayalam: സിക്കിം (sikkiṃ)
• Marathi: सिक्किम (sikkim)
• Mizo: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: सिक्किम (ne) (sikkima)
• Oriya: ସିକିମ (sikim)
• Persian: سیکیم‎‎ (Sikim)
• Portuguese: Sikkim m
• Punjabi: ਸਿੱਕਮ (sikkam), ਸਿਕਿਮ (sikim)
• Russian: Сикки́м m (Sikkím)
• Sanskrit: सिक्किम (sikkima)
• Santali: please add this translation if you can
• Sikkimese: སུ་ཁྱིམ (su khyim)
• Sinhalese: සිකිම් (sikim)
• Spanish: Sikkim, Sikín
• Tamil: சிக்கிம் (cikkim)
• Telugu: సిక్కిం (te) (sikkiṃ)
• Thai: รัฐสิกขิม (rát sìk-kĭm), สิกขิม (sìk-kĭm)
• Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས ('bras ljongs)
• Ukrainian: Сіккім (Sikkim)
• Western Panjabi: سکم‎‎ (pnb)

See also

• (states of India) state of India; Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Sikkim m

1. Sikkim (a state in eastern India)