Taliban definition

tălə-băn
A fundamentalist Muslim group of Afghanistan and western Pakistan, known for its military and paramilitary activities.
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A militant fundamentalist-Islamic movement, chiefly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of taliban - 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.

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

  • We still have fundamentalist iconoclasm; for example, 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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