طالبان

Arabic

Etymology

From Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Proper noun

طَالِبَان • (ṭālibān) f or m

1. 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

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

Declension of noun طَالِبَان (ṭālibān)

Pashto

Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:

طالبان

Wikipedia ^ps

Noun

طالبان • (tālibān) m

1. plural of طالب (“student, seeker”)

Proper noun

طالبان • (tālibān) m

1. 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]

• (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

Dari	طالبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	толибон

طالبان • (tâlebân)

1. plural of طالب

Proper noun

Dari	طالبان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Толибон

طالبان • (tâlebân)

1. 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

طالبان جنگجووں
Taliban fighters

Etymology

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

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

Proper noun

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

1. 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, 2025.