Taliban Definition

tălə-băn
noun
A militant fundamentalist-Islamic movement, chiefly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • taleban

Origin of Taliban

  • Pashto tālibān pl. of tālib student from Persian from Arabic seeker, student from ṭalaba to seek ṭlb in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Taliban Sentence Examples

  • Taliban forces deployed in the field are being attacked.

  • We still have fundamentalist iconoclasm; for example, the Taliban.

  • Exceptionally privileged, for a poor country like Pakistan, far from the fundamentalist schools which spawned the grim religiosity of the Taliban.

  • When Taliban captured Kabul, mutual benefits and Taliban 's puritanical views brought bin Laden close to the Afghan militia.

  • It is not [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar, nor is it Osama Bin Laden.

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Words Starting With

TTATAL

Words Ending With

NANBAN

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