Taliban
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Pashto طالبان (tālibān, “students, seekers”), plural of طالب (tālib), from Arabic طَالِب (ṭālib, “seeker, student”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
the Taliban
- A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.
Translations
Islamist movement in Afghanistan
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Noun
Taliban (plural Taliban or Talibans)
- A Taliban militia.
- 2005, Merajuddin Pathan, quoted in Scott Baldauf, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor, 2005 April 28:
- We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets.
- 2008, Raza Khan, “Afghan, Pakistani Taliban diverge on goals”, in The Washington Times, 2009 November 18:
- Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans.
- 2009 March 27, Carlotta Gall, “Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks”, in The New York Times, page A1:
- The Pakistani Taliban, an offspring of the Afghan Taliban, are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions.
- 2005, Merajuddin Pathan, quoted in Scott Baldauf, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor, 2005 April 28:
- A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
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Translations
militia
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member of the Taliban movement or its militia
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Anagrams
German
Alternative forms
- Talib (rarer, learned singular)
Etymology
From Pashto طالبان (tālibān), plural of طالب (tālib, “disciple”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Taliban m (strong, genitive Talibans or Taliban, plural Taliban)
- Taliban, a member of the Taliban movement
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Taliban” in Duden online
- “Taliban” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Taliban on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Portuguese
Proper noun
Taliban m
- Alternative spelling of Talibã