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Nanak

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Na·nak  (nänk) 1469-1538?
Indian religious leader who broke from orthodox Hinduism to found Sikhism.
Nanak [ˈnɑːnək]
n
(Biographies / Nanak (1469-1538) M, Indian, RELIGION: religious leader, RELIGION: Sikh) 1469-1538, Indian religious leader; founder and first guru of Sikhism
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Noun1.Nanak - 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)
Guru Nanak
Sikhism - the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam


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