Sikh

Sikh (;   ) adolah pangikuik Sikhisme yang marupokan agamo panenteistik yang barasa dari abad ka-15 di kawasan Punjab di anak benua India barat lawik. Istilah "Sikh" barasa dari kato dalam bahaso Sansekerta शिष्य (; pangikuik, murid) atau शिक्ष (; instruksi). Manuruik Pasal I Sikh Rehat Maryada, saurang Sikh adolah "insan manopun yang picayo kapado Satu Tuhan Abadi; sapuluah Guru, dari Guru Nanak hinggo Guru Gobind Singh; Guru Granth Sahib; ajaran sapuluah Guru jo Khalsa".

Istilah "Sikh" sabananyo hanyo mangacu kapado pangikuik Sikhisme dan indak kalompok etnik. Namun, Sikhisme jarang mancari panganuik dari lua, sahinggo sabagian gadang urang Sikh mampunyoi ikatan etno-religius yang kuek. Mako dari itu, banyak nagari (sarupo Britania Raya) yang mangakui Sikh sabagai kalompok etnis dalam sensus urang tu.

Asal-usua namo Sikh 
Laki-laki Sikh mampunyoi namo tangah atau balakang "Singh" (singa), samantaro kaum padusi mampunyoi namo "Kaur" (putri). Urang Sikh yang alah malalui khanḍe-kī-pahul (upacara inisiasi Sikh) juo dapek dikenal dari lima K: Kesh, rambuik yang indak dipotong jo ditutuik jo saroban; kara, galang basi atau baja; kirpan, pedang yang dimasuakkan ka dalam tali pangabek gatra atau sabuak kamal kasa; kachera, pakaian dalam kapeh; dan kanga, sikek kayu ketek.

Tanah aia urang Sikh adolah kawasan Punjab di anak benua India, walaupun pado maso modern urang tu alah tasebar di babagai nagari, sarupo Britania Raya, Amerika Serikat, Kanada, Jerman, Malaysia jo Indonesia.

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Bacoan lanjuik 
 The Sikhs In History: A Millennium Study  by Sangat Singh, Noel Quinton King. New York 1995. 
 A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469–1838 by Khushwant Singh. Oxford India Paperbacks (13 January 2005). 
 The Sikhs by Patwant Singh. Image (17 July 2001). 
 The Sikhs of the Punjab by J. S. Grewal. Published by Cambridge University Press (28 October 1998). .
 The Sikhs: History, Religion, and Society by W.H. McLeod. Published by Columbia University Press (15 April 1989). 
 The Sikh Diaspora: Tradition and Change in an Immigrant Community (Asian Americans — Reconceptualising Culture, History, Politics) by Michael Angelo. Published by Routledge (1 September 1997). 
 Glory of Sikhism by R. M. Chopra, Sanbun Publishers, 2001, , .

 The Philosophical and Religious Thought of Sikhism by R. M. Chopra, 2014, Sparrow Publication, Kolkata, 
 The construction of religious boundaries: Culture, identity, and diversity in the Sikh tradition - H Oberoi - 1994 University of Chicago press, 

"Architectural Heritage of a Sikh State: Faridkot" by Subhash Parihar, Delhi: Aryan Books International, 2009, 

 "A Study of Religions" by R. M. Chopra, Anuradha Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015. .