It doesn't really have English origin, it's the Pashtun Arabic name for "students" who interpret the name as "seminarists." It was popularized as the name of a Sunnisited fundamentalist faction of Afghan origin that spread across several Islamic nations. He played an important role in foreign invasions of his territory, as they have military power. The word 1591; 1575; 1604; 1576; 1575; 1606; ( Taliban ) consists of Arabic 1591; 1575; 1604; 1576; ( talib "student" ) the suffix for Persian plurals 1575; 1606; ( _an ) . As in English the _an ending is used in Gentiles or groups of belonging in singular, it was taken to 'taliban' as a singular creating 'talibans' as its plural. The curious fact is that 'taliban' is also a neologism for Arabic, because in that language the Persian suffix '_an' does not mean plural but 'double'.
