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taliban

/ˈtælɪˌbæn/

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What does taliban mean?

noun

  1. A Taliban militia.
  2. A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
  3. A censorious or bigoted moralist.
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proper noun

  1. 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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IPA pronunciation

/ˈtælɪˌbæn/

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