taliban · name — 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.
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taliban is pronounced /ˈtælɪbæn/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān, “students, seekers”), plural of طالب (tālib), from Arabic طَالِب (ṭālib, “seeker, student”).
name
- 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.e.g.“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.” — 2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
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- A Taliban militia.e.g.“We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets.” — 2005 April 28, Scott Baldauf, quoting Merajuddin Pathan, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor^(https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202450/https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0428
- A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
- A censorious or bigoted moralist.e.g.“If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion.” — 2005 July 18, Alan Duncan, “The Tory Taliban must be rooted out”, in The Guardian:
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