English
Etymology
c 1790, from words ending in -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Pronunciation
Noun
phobia (plural phobias or phobiae or phobiæ)
- An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
- I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
- Afrikaans: fobie
- Albanian: fobi ?
- Arabic: رُهَاب (ar) m (ruhāb)
- Hijazi Arabic: فوبيا f (fōbya), رهاب m (ruhāb)
- Armenian: ֆոբիա (hy) (fobia)
- Azerbaijani: fobiya (az)
- Belarusian: фо́бія f (fóbija)
- Bulgarian: фо́бия (bg) f (fóbija)
- Catalan: fòbia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 恐懼症／恐惧症 (zh) (kǒngjùzhèng), 恐惧症 (zh) (kǒngjùzhèng)
- Czech: fobie (cs) f
- Danish: fobi c
- Dutch: fobie (nl) f
- Esperanto: fobio
- Estonian: foobia (et)
- Finnish: fobia (fi)
- French: phobie (fr) f
- Georgian: შიში (šiši), ფობია (ka) (pobia)
- German: Phobie (de) f
- Greek: φοβία (el) f (fovía)
- Hebrew: פוביה (he) f (fóbya)
- Hindi: भीति (hi) f (bhīti)
- Hungarian: fóbia (hu)
- Irish: fóibe f
- Italian: fobia (it) f, paura (it) f, timore (it) m
- Japanese: 恐怖症 (きょうふしょう, kyōfushō)
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- Kazakh: фобия (fobiä), қорқу (kk) (qorqu)
- Korean: 공포증 (ko) (gongpojeung)
- Latin: phobia f
- Latvian: fobija f
- Lithuanian: fobija f
- Macedonian: фо́бија f (fóbija)
- Maori: mae, mate mae
- Marathi: भीति f (bhīti)
- Norwegian: fobi (no) m
- Persian: ترس (fa) (tars), هراس (fa) (harâs)
- Polish: fobia (pl) f
- Portuguese: fobia (pt) f
- Romanian: fobie (ro) f
- Russian: фо́бия (ru) f (fóbija), боя́знь (ru) f (bojáznʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фо̀бија f
- Roman: fòbija (sh) f
- Slovak: fóbia (sk) f
- Slovene: fobija f
- Spanish: fobia (es) f
- Swedish: fobi (sv) c, skräck (sv) c
- Tagalog: takot
- Telugu: భయము (te) (bhayamu)
- Turkish: fobi (tr)
- Ukrainian: фо́бія f (fóbija)
- Welsh: ffobia (cy) m
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