طالبان

From Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

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)

طالبان • (tālibān) m

1. plural of طالب (“student, seeker”)

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)

• → English: Taliban
• → Urdu: طالبان (tālibān)

طالبان • (tâlebân)

1. plural of طالب

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)

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

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

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

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

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)

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

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

• “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.