| 1 | English | Taliban | A Taliban militia; A member of the Taliban... |
| 2 | Pashto | طالبان | students, seekers |
| 3 | Arabic | طالب | seeker, pursuer; student, scholar; claimant |
| 4 | Arabic | طَلَبَ | to demand, ask, beg; to seek, to request, etc |
| 5 | Arabic | ل | to, for, belonging to; لَـ •; Used to express... |
| 6 | Proto-Semitic | *lV- | — |