taliban
/ˈtælɪbæn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
noun
A Taliban militia.
noun
A censorious or bigoted moralist.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets."
- "The Pakistani Taliban, an offspring of the Afghan Taliban, are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions."
- "Indeed, one of the key distinguishing factors between the two Talibans is that the Afghans insist they have a strictly local agenda of "liberating" their homeland, many analysts say. […] Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans."
- "If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ط ل ب
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Tehrik-ee-Taliban Pakistan
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan