Definitions for taliban
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Princeton's WordNet
Taliban, Taleban(noun)
a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government
"the Taliban enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior"
Wiktionary
Taliban(Noun)
A Taliban militia.
Taliban(Noun)
A member of the Taliban movement or its militia.
Taliban(ProperNoun)
A Sunni Islamic student movement in Afghanistan; organized in 1994 by the radical mullah "Mohammad Omar"
Origin: From ("students" or "seekers"), a Pashto plural of Arabic ("seeker", "student").
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