طالبان

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Proper noun

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طَالِبَان (ṭālibānf or m

  1. 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)

Declension

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Pashto

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Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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طالبان (tālibānm

  1. plural of طالب (student, seeker)

Proper noun

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طالبان (tālibānm

  1. 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)

Descendants

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  • English: Taliban
  • Urdu: طالبان (tālibān)

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? tāliḇān
Dari reading? tālibān
Iranian reading? tâlebân
Tajik reading? tolibon

Noun

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Dari طالبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik толибон

طالبان (tâlebân)

  1. plural of طالب

Proper noun

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Dari طالبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Толибон

طالبان (tâlebân)

  1. 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)

Urdu

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طالبان جنگجووں
Taliban fighters

Etymology

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Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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طالبان (tālibān?

  1. plural of طالب (tālib, seeker; student)

Proper noun

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طالبان (tālibān?

  1. 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)

Derived terms

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References

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  • طالبان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “طالبان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “طالبان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • طالبان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.