arachnophobia

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /æˌɹæk.nəˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -əʊbiə
  Play

Etymology tree English arachno- Proto-Indo-European *bhegw- Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der. Latin New Latinbor. English -phobia English arachnophobia From arachno- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Piecewise doublet of araneophobia.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رُهَاب اَلْعَنَاكِب (ruhāb al-ʕanākib) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Belarusian: арахнафобія (araxnafóbija) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Catalan: aracnofòbia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜘蛛恐懼症 /蜘蛛恐惧症 (zhīzhū kǒngjùzhèng) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Czech: arachnofobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Dutch: arachnofobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Dutch: spinnenfobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Dutch: spinnenangst — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Dutch: spinnenvrees — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Esperanto: araneofobio — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Estonian: arahnofoobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Finnish: hämähäkkikammo — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Finnish: araknofobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• French: arachnophobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• German: Arachnophobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• German: Spinnenangst — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Greek: αραχνοφοβία (arachnofovía) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Hawaiian: kipona makaʻu nananana — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Hebrew: אָרַכְנוֹפוֹבְּיָה (arakhnofóbya) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Hungarian: arachnofóbia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Icelandic: köngullóafælni — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Irish: aracnafóibe — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Irish: uamhan damhán alla — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Italian: aracnofobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Japanese: 蜘蛛恐怖症 (kumo-kyōfushō) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Polish: arachnofobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Portuguese: aracnofobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Romanian: arahnofobie — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Russian: арахнофо́бия (araxnofóbija) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Spanish: aracnofobia — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Swedish: arachnofobi — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Swedish: spindelfobi — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Tagalog: takot-gagamba — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Turkish: araknofobi — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders
• Ukrainian: арахнофо́бія (araxnofóbija) — an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders