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Taliban

//ˈtælɪbæn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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.
Noun
  1. 1
    A Taliban militia.

    "We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets."

  2. 2
    a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān, “students, seekers”), plural of طالب (tālib), from Arabic طَالِب (ṭālib, “seeker, student”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān, “students, seekers”), plural of طالب (tālib), from Arabic طَالِب (ṭālib, “seeker, student”).

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