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Taliban meaning in Myanmar

တာလီဘန် talibhan

/ˈtælɪbæn/

Taliban in Myanmar: တာလီဘန် (talibhan). In English, Taliban means 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.

Myanmar words for Taliban

Islamist movement in Afghanistan
တာလီဘန် talibhan

English meaning of Taliban

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

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Questions about Taliban in Myanmar

What is the meaning of Taliban in Myanmar?
Taliban in Myanmar is တာလီဘန် (talibhan).
Taliban ရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်က ဘာလဲ။
Taliban: တာလီဘန် (talibhan).
What does Taliban mean in English?
Taliban means 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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Adapted from Wiktionary: Taliban (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Myanmar words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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