Isis vs Taliban - What's the difference?
isis | taliban |
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
(UK, Oxford) The River Thames.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
(rare) (female)
* 1924 , Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light :
* 1995 , Iain Banks, Whit :
A Sunni Islamic student movement organized in Afghanistan in 1994 by the radical mullah (w).
A Taliban militia.
* 2005 , Merajuddin Pathan, quoted in Scott Baldauf, “
* 2008', Raza Khan, “
* 2009', Carlotta Gall, “
A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
As a proper noun isis
is a sunni jihadist group active in iraq and syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state.As an adjective taliban is
taliban.isis
English
(wikipedia Isis)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
- 'Beloved Isis ,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
Etymology 2
taliban
English
(wikipedia Taliban)Alternative forms
* TalebanProper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(en-noun)Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor , 2005 April 28:
- We will deal with the Afghan Taliban' through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani ' Taliban with bullets.
Afghan, Pakistani '''Talibandiverge on goals”, in ''The Washington Times , 2009 November 18:
- Not everyone accepts the premise of a complete rupture between the two Talibans .
Pakistan and Afghan '''TalibanClose Ranks”, in ''The New York Times , 2009 March 27, page A1:
- The Pakistani Taliban', an offspring of the Afghan ' Taliban , are led by veterans of the fighting in Afghanistan who come from the border regions.
