Taliban
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān, “students, seekers”), plural of طالب (tālib), from Arabic طَالِب (ṭālib, “seeker, student”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtælɪbæn/, /ˈtæləbæn/, /ˈtælɪbɑːn/, /ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]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.
- 2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 February 2022:
- The president refused to offer any sort of mea culpa on Tuesday, even as the Taliban celebrated their “independence” from America with gunfire in the streets of Kabul.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Islamist movement in Afghanistan
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Noun
[edit]Taliban (plural Taliban or Talibans)
- A Taliban militia.
- 2005 April 28, Scott Baldauf, quoting Merajuddin Pathan, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor[2], archived from the original on 4 March 2016:
- We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets.
- 2009 March 27, Carlotta Gall, “Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks”, in The New York Times[3], archived from the original on 11 March 2022, 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.
- 2009 November 18, Raza Khan, “Afghan, Pakistani Taliban diverge on goals”, in The Washington Times[4], archived from the original on 17 January 2010:
- Indeed, one of the key distinguishing factors between the two Talibans is that the Afghans insist they have a strictly local agenda of "liberating" their homeland, many analysts say. […] Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans.
- A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
- A censorious or bigoted moralist.
- 2005 July 18, Alan Duncan, “The Tory Taliban must be rooted out”, in The Guardian[5]:
- If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]militia
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member of the Taliban movement or its militia
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Further reading
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Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Talib (rarer, learned singular)
Etymology
[edit]From Pashto طالبان (tālibān), plural of طالب (tālib, “disciple”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Taliban m (strong, genitive Talibans or Taliban, plural Taliban)
- Taliban, a member of the Taliban movement
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Taliban” in Duden online
- “Taliban”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[7] (in German)
Taliban on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Taliban m
- alternative spelling of Talibã
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