WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Adherents of Sikhism are known as Sikhs, meaning ‘students’ or ‘disciples’ of the Guru. The English word Sikhism derives from the Punjabi verb Sikhi, which connotes the “temporal path of learning” and is rooted in the word sikhana (’to learn’).

Detailed explanation-2: -"The word ‘Sikh’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘shishya’ which means disciple. Sikhs are disciples of Guru Nanak, but we Indians want to become your disciples i.e. Sikhs of the Sikhs."

Detailed explanation-3: -Sikh. / (siːk) / noun. a member of an Indian religion that separated from Hinduism and was founded in the 16th century, that teaches monotheism and that has the Granth as its chief religious document, rejecting the authority of the Vedas.