طالبان

Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Proper noun edit

طَالِبَان • (ṭālibān) f or m

Taliban

Declension edit

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 edit

Pashto Wikipedia has an article on:

طالبان

Wikipedia ^ps

Noun edit

طالبان • (tālibān) m

plural of طالب (“student, seeker”)

Proper noun edit

طالبان • (tālibān) m

the Taliban

Descendants edit

→ English: Taliban
→ Urdu: طالبان (tālibān)

Persian edit

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

طالبان

Wikipedia ^fa

Pronunciation edit

(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 edit

طالبان • (tâlebân)

plural of

Proper noun edit


Iranian Persian	طالبان
Dari	طالبان
Tajik	Толибон

طالبان • (tâlebân)

the Taliban

Urdu edit

طالبان جنگجووں
Taliban fighters

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Pashto طالبان (tālibān).

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

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

Proper noun edit

طالبان • (tālibān) ?

Taliban

Derived terms edit

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

Related terms edit

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

References edit

“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 Thompson (1884) “طالبان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
“طالبان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.