Sikh

See also: sikh

English

Alternative forms

• Seek, Seekh, Seik, Seikh, Sicque (all obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːk/, /sɪk/
• Rhymes: -iːk, -ɪk
• Homophones: seek, sick

Noun

Sikh (plural Sikhs)

1. An adherent of Sikhism.

Hypernyms

• religionist

Coordinate terms

religious adherentsedit

• agnostic
• Asatruar
• atheist
• Baháʼí
• Buddhist
• Christian
• deist
• Druid
• Druze
• Eckist
• heathen
• Hindu
• Jain
• Jedi
• Jew
• Mormon
• Mormonist
• Muslim
• Odinist
• pagan
• Pastafarian
• Quaker
• Raëlian
• Rastafarian
• Rodnover
• Samaritan
• Shintoist
• Sikh
• Taoist
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Yahwist
• Yazidi
• Zoroastrian

Translations

an adherent of Sikhism

• Arabic: سِيخ m (sīḵ)
• Bengali: শিখ (bn) (śikh)
• Catalan: sikh (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錫克人 / 锡克人 (zh) (Xīkè-rén)

• Danish: sikh c
• Dutch: sikh (nl) m
• Esperanto: siko
• Finnish: sikhi (fi)
• French: sikh (fr)
• German: Sikh (de) m
• Hindi: सिख (hi) m (sikh), नानकपंथी (hi) m (nānakpanthī), नानकशाही (hi) m (nānakśāhī), सरदार (hi) m (sardār)
• Hungarian: szikh (hu)
• Japanese: シーク (Shīku)
• Marathi: शीख (śīkh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sikh m

  Nynorsk: sikh m

• Odia: ନାନକପନ୍ଥୀ (or) (nānakapanthi)
• Persian: سیک (fa)
• Polish: sikh (pl) m, sikhijka f
• Portuguese: sikh (pt) m or f, sique (pt) m or f
• Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ (pa) (sikkha)
• Russian: сикх (ru) m (sikx)
• Sindhi: سک
• Spanish: sij (es)
• Swahili: Kalasinga
• Swedish: sikh (sv) c
• Urdu: سکھ m (sikh)

Adjective

Sikh (comparative more Sikh, superlative most Sikh)

1. of, or relating to the Sikhs or to Sikhism.

Derived terms

• Sikh Empire

Translations

relating to Sikhism

• Catalan: sikh (ca)
• Danish: sikhisk, sikh- (with or without a hyphen)
• Esperanto: sika (eo)
• Finnish: sikhiläinen (fi)
• French: sikh (fr)
• German: sikhisch, Sikh- (with or without a hyphen)
• Hindi: सिख (hi) (sikh)
• Marathi: शीख (śīkh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sikhisk, sikh- (with or without a hyphen)

  Nynorsk: sikhisk, sikh- (with or without a hyphen)

• Polish: sikhijski
• Portuguese: sikh (pt)
• Swedish: sikhisk (sv), sikh- (with or without a hyphen)

See also

• Sikh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kish, khis, kish