Bibliotheca Polyglotta

1 seeker, pursuer; 2 claimer, claimant; 3 applicant, petitioner; 3 candidate; 4 student, scholar, also ~ al-ʕilm ; 5 pupil; 6 a naval rank, approx.: midshipman (Eg. 1939)– WehrCowan1979.

conc

▪ Grammatically a PA I meaning ‘seeking’, from vb. I, ↗ṭalaba ‘to seek, request, claim’, the word is now mostly lexicalized as a noun.

hist

▪ eC7 (one who pursues, seeks, petitions) Q 22:73 wa-ʔin yaslub-hum-u ’l-ḏabābu šayʔan lā yastanqiḏū-hu min-hu ḍaʕufa ’l-ṭālibu wa’l-maṭlūbu ‘and if the flies rob them of something, they would not be able to retrieve it from them. Feeble are the petitioners and feeble are those they petition’.

cogn

▪ ↗ṭalaba.

disc

↗ṭalaba.
▪ …

west

▪ Engl Taliban, »Sunni fundamentalist movement begun in Afghanistan«, Pashto pl. of Ar ṭālib ‘seeker, student’, so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools; group formed c. 1993. Often incorrectly treated as sg. in Engl.

deriv

► ṭālib mumtāz, n., a naval rank, approx.: ensign (Eg. 1939)
► ṭullāb al-ḥāǧāt, n., petitioners; ~ al-zawāǧ, n., suitor.

► ^BP#3788ṭālibī and ṭullābī adj., student’s, student- (in compounds), of or pertaining to studies or students: nsb-formation from ṭālib and pl. ṭullāb, respectively.

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