phobia

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• fōbēə
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
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• General-American: /ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
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• rhymes with -əʊbiə
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• CMU ARPABET: F OW1 B IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested in c. 1790, from words ending in -phobia, ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: fobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Albanian: fobi — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Arabic: رُهَاب (ruhāb) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Arabic: فُوبِيَا (fūbiyā) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Arabic: فوبيا (fōbya) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Arabic: رهاب (ruhāb) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Armenian: ֆոբիա (fobia) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Azerbaijani: fobiya — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Belarusian: фо́бія (fóbija) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Bulgarian: фо́бия (fóbija) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Catalan: fòbia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐懼症 /恐惧症 (kǒngjùzhèng) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Corsican: fubia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Corsican: fubìa — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Czech: fobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Danish: fobi — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Dutch: fobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Esperanto: fobio — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Estonian: foobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Finnish: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Finnish: määräkohteinen pelko — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• French: phobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Georgian: შიში (šiši) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Georgian: ფობია (pobia) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• German: Phobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Greek: φοβία (fovía) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Hebrew: פוֹבְּיָה (fóbya) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Hindi: भीति (bhīti) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Hindi: फ़ोबिया (fobiyā) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Hindi: फोबिया (phobiyā) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Hungarian: fóbia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Icelandic: fælni — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Indonesian: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Irish: fóibe — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Italian: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Italian: paura — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Italian: timore — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Japanese: 恐怖症 (kyōfushō) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Kazakh: фобия (fobiä) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Kazakh: қорқу (qorqu) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Khmer: ការភ័យខ្លាច (kaa phɨy khlaac) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Korean: 공포증 (gongpojeung) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Kyrgyz: фобия (fobiya) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Latin: phobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Latvian: fobija — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Lithuanian: fobija — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Macedonian: фо́бија (fóbija) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Malay: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Māori: mae — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Māori: mate mae — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Marathi: भीति (bhīti) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Norwegian Bokmål: fobi — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Iranian Persian: تَرْس (tars) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Iranian Persian: هَراس (harâs) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Iranian Persian: فوبْیا (fobyâ) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Polish: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Portuguese: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Romanian: fobie — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Russian: фо́бия (fóbija) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Russian: боя́знь (bojáznʹ) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Sardinian: fobìa — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Serbo-Croatian: фо̀бија — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Serbo-Croatian: fòbija — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Slovak: fóbia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Slovene: fobija — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Spanish: fobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Swedish: fobi — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Swedish: skräck — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Tagalog: takot — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Tagalog: pobya — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Tajik: тарс (tars) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Tajik: ҳарос (haros) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Tajik: фобия (fobiya) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Telugu: భయము (bhayamu) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Thai: โรคกลัว (rôok-gluua) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Thai: โฟเบีย (foo-biia) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Turkish: fobi — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Turkmen: fobiýa — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Ukrainian: фо́бія (fóbija) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Uyghur: قورقۇش (qorqush) — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Uzbek: fobiya — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Uzbek: qoʻrquv — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Vietnamese: ám ảnh sợ — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Vietnamese: hội chứng sợ — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety
• Welsh: ffobia — irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety