phobia

See also: -phobia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊbi.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

phobia (plural phobias or phobiæ)

1. Psychological term for an irrational or obsessive fear of.

   I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

Related terms

• -phobe
• -phobia
• -phobic

Derived terms

► English words suffixed with -phobia

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Phobias.

Translations

irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety

• Afrikaans: fobie
• Albanian: fobi
• Arabic: رُهَاب‏‎ m (ruhāb)
• Armenian: ֆոբիա (fobia)
• Azeri: fobiya (az)
• Belarusian: фо́бія f (fóbija)
• Bulgarian: фо́бия (bg) f (fóbija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恐懼症 (zh), 恐惧症 (zh) (kǒngjùzhèng)

• Czech: fobie (cs) f
• Danish: fobi c
• Dutch: fobie (nl)
• 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)
• Hindi: भीति (hi) f (bhīti)
• Hungarian: fóbia (hu)
• Irish: fóibe f
• Italian: fobia (it) f
• Japanese: 恐怖症 (きょうふしょう, kyōfushō)
• 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)
• Russian: фо́бия (ru) f (fóbija), боя́знь (ru) f (bojáznʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фобија f

  Roman: fobija (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)

See also

• Category:Phobias
• Appendix:English unattested phobias