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Taleban

Taleban is the alternative form of Taliban.

Meaning of Taliban

Proper noun

the Taliban

  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.
    • 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.2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear, Jim Tankersley, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022

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Questions about Taleban

What is Taleban the alternative form of?
Taleban is the alternative form of Taliban.

Words near Taleban in the dictionary

  1. tale-tellers
  2. talea
  3. taleable
  4. taleae
  5. Taleb
  6. Taleban
  7. talebear
  8. talebearer
  9. talebearers
  10. talebearing
  11. talebearings

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