English Explanatory Dictionary

Islamophobia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Islamophobia.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Islamophobia Islamophobias Islamaphobia

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.

Synonyms

Muslimophobia Muslimphobia

Related words

Islamophobe Islamophobiac Islamophobian Islamophobic Islamophobism anti-Arabism anti-Jewism anti-Semitism anti-Muslimism Christianophobia Germanophobia Judeophobia
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