طالبان

Arabic

Etymology

Proper noun

طَالِبَان • (ṭālibān) f or m

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)

Declension

Declension of noun طَالِبَان (ṭālibān)

Singular	basic singular diptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	طَالِبَان ṭālibān	—
Nominative	—	طَالِبَانُ ṭālibānu	—
Accusative	—	طَالِبَانَ ṭālibāna	—
Genitive	—	طَالِبَانَ ṭālibāna	—

Pashto

Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:

طالبان

Wikipedia ^ps

Noun

طالبان • (tālibān) m

plural of طالب (“student, seeker”)

Proper noun

طالبان • (tālibān) m

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)

Descendants

→ English: Taliban
→ Urdu: طالبان (tālibān)

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

طالبان

Wikipedia ^fa

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tɑː.li.ˈβɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.lɪ.bɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑː.lɪ.bɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔː.li.bɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒː.le.bɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔ.li.bɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	tāliḇān
Dari reading^?	tālibān
Iranian reading^?	tâlebân
Tajik reading^?	tolibon

Noun


Iranian Persian	طالبان
Dari	طالبان
Tajik	толибон

طالبان • (tâlebân)

plural of

Proper noun


Iranian Persian	طالبان
Dari	طالبان
Tajik	Толибон

طالبان • (tâlebân)

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)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑː.lɪ.bɑːn/

Noun

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

plural of طالب (tālib, “seeker; student”)

Proper noun

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

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)

Derived terms

طالِبانِ حَق (tālibān-e-haq, “seekers of truth”)
طالِبانِ فَضِیلَتِ گُسْتار (tālibān-e-fazīlat-e-gustār, “seekers of great eminence”)

Related terms

طالب انصاف (tālib-e-insāf, “seeker of justice”)

References

“طالبان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “طالبان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884) “طالبان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
“طالبان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.