Sikh

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

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸਿੱਖ (sikkha).

• IPA^(key): /siːk/, /sɪk/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːk, -ɪk
• Homophones: seek, sick

Sikh (plural Sikhs)

1. An adherent of Sikhism.
   • 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Last year, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he had credible information linking the Indian government to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an Indian-born Canadian national and Sikh dissident who was an outspoken supporter of Khalistan, a proposed autonomous homeland for Sikhs in northern India.

• religionist

Sikh (comparative more Sikh, superlative most Sikh)

1. of, or relating to the Sikhs or to Sikhism.
   • 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     A year earlier, the Canadian leader was seen at a Sikh event in Toronto where separatist flags and posters depicting an extremist Sikh leader killed in a 1984 Indian Army operation were displayed.

• Sikh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Kish, khis, kish