English noun: Nanak | |||
1. | Nanak (person) Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538) | ||
Synonyms | Guru Nanak | ||
Instance hypernym | religious leader | ||
Domain category | Sikhism | ||