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Islamophobia

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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noun

Meaning 2

Alternative letter-case form of Islamophobia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, uncountable, usually

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noun

Meaning 3

prejudice against Muslims

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Muslim intellectuals are afraid of growing Islamophobia in the West

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bias, prejudice, preconception

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama) Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor. English Islam Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Islamo- 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 Islamophobia From Islamo- + -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: islamofobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Arabic: رُهَاب الْإِسْلَام (ruhāb al-ʔislām) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Arabic: إِسْلَامُوفُوبِيَا (ʔislāmufūbiyā) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Arabic: إسلاموفوبيا (ʔislāmufūbiyā) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Armenian: իսլամաֆոբիա (islamafobia) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Armenian: իսլամատյացություն (islamatyacʻutʻyun) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Azerbaijani: islamofobiya — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Belarusian: ісламафо́бія (islamafóbija) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Bulgarian: ислямофо́бия (isljamofóbija) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Catalan: islamofòbia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Chinese Mandarin: 伊斯蘭恐懼症 /伊斯兰恐惧症 (Yīsīlán kǒngjùzhèng) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Chinese Mandarin: 仇綠 /仇绿 (chóulǜ) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Chinese Mandarin: 仇穆 (chóumù) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Corsican: islamufubia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Corsican: islamufubìa — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Czech: islamofobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Danish: islamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Dutch: islamofobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Estonian: islamofoobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Finnish: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • French: islamophobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Galician: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Georgian: ისლამოფობია (islamopobia) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • German: Islamophobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • German: Islamhass — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • German: Islamfeindlichkeit — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • German: Islamfeindschaft — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Greek: ισλαμοφοβία (islamofovía) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Hebrew: אסלאמופוביה — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Hindi: इस्लामभीति (islāmbhīti) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Icelandic: íslamsfælni — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Indonesian: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Irish: Ioslamafóibe — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Italian: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Italian: antislamismo — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Japanese: イスラム恐怖症 (Isuramu-kyōfushō) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Kazakh: ислам фобиясы (islam fobiäsy) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Korean: 이슬람 혐오증 (Iseullam hyeomojeung) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Latvian: islāmfobija — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Lithuanian: islamofobija — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Macedonian: исламофо́бија (islamofóbija) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Malay: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Norwegian Bokmål: islamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: islamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Occitan: islamofòbia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Persian: اسلامهراسی (eslâm-harâsi) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Persian: اسلامستیزی — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Polish: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Portuguese: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Romanian: islamofobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Russian: исламофо́бия (islamofóbija) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Scots: Islamophobie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Serbo-Croatian: исламофобија — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Serbo-Croatian: islamofobija — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Slovak: islamofóbie — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Slovene: islamofobija — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Spanish: islamofobia — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Swedish: islamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Turkish: islamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Turkish: İslamofobi — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Ukrainian: ісламофо́бія (islamofóbija) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Urdu: اسلام دشمنی (islām-duśmanī) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims
  • Urdu: اسلام ہراسی (islām-hirāsī) — fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims