What does 'Taliban' or 'Taleban' mean?

Question

Im not sure on the spelling cause it changes on every website you go on...

Answer 1

"Taliban" is Arabic for "student."

Answer 2

TALIBAN- a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government; they enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior.

The Taliban and TalEban are the same thing.

'Taleban' is a name transliterated from Arabic script, and there is no overall international consensus on whether it should be Taliban or Taleban. The BBC's House Style, as advised by our Pashto service, is to use Taleban

Answer 3

The word itself is the plural of the Arabic word talib, or student/seeker. The Taliban, however, is a fundamentalist Islamic political movement which ruled Afghanistan for a number of years and is now on the upswing again.

The spelling (Taliban or Taleban) is irrelevant, really, just a matter of how you transliterate. Both are correct.

Answer 4

The Taliban Movement or just Taliban or Taleban is a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist pro-Pashtun movement which effectively ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

Answer 5

The Taliban as in the fanatical Islamists that controlled Afghanistan, the term is the Pashtu plural form of the Arabic طالب ṭālib, "seeker". The phrase "طالبِ علم" or "Thaalib-e-Ilm", literally "seeker of knowledge", is the Arabic/Urdu phrase for "student".

Answer 6

Both spellings are correct, I know URDU language being from India, the word TALIBAN, OR TALEBAN
means = Students

TALIB = STUDENT
TALIBAN = GROUP OF STUDENTS.

Hope this helps, choose my answer to be correct answer

Answer 7

It means "seeker," in pashtu.

Answer 8

it means control freak