Regarding the word "Taliban"
Hello eveyone. I have a couple of questions regarding the word "Taliban."
Q1 Can we say that this word is a collecitive noun as well as a proper noun?
Q2 Are there similar words to "Taliban" in terms of grammar? I've realized that "Peshmerga" may be one of those words, but I don't have much confidence in it. (Unfortunately, I haven't come up with anything other than that.)
Q3 I watched the news title "Taliban address the world" on BBC. By the way, how do Americands normally use "Taliban"? Do they like to say "Taliban addresses the world" better?
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seagull Q1 Can we say that this word is a collecitive noun as well as a proper noun? Not for me. seagull Q2 Are there similar words to "Taliban" in terms of grammar?
- seagull Q1 Can we say that this word is a collecitive noun as well as a proper noun?
- Not for me.
- seagull Q2 Are there similar words to "Taliban" in terms of grammar?
- I've realized that "Peshmerga" may be one of those words, but I don't have much confidence in it.
- ) It's odd, but it seems we have absorbed the word as a plural grammatically equivalent to "the Methodists" or "the Sunni", maybe because it is a plural in Arabic, "the students".
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seagullQ1 Can we say that this word is a collecitive noun as well as a proper noun?
Not for me.
seagullQ2 Are there similar words to "Taliban" in terms of grammar? I've realized that "Peshmerga" may be one of those words, but I don't have much confidence in it. (Unfortunately, I haven't come up with anything other than that.)
0seagullI've realized that "Peshmerga" may be one of those words, but I don't have much confidence in it. (Unfortunately, I haven't come up with anything other than that.)
That applies to Kurdish armed groups in the Kurdistan region. That word is not similar.
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