Islamophobia

islamophobia English Alternative forms en islamophobia Islamaphobia Etymology en :af Islamo- -phobia 1 + Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati. Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Islamophobia.wav Southern England Noun - s Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims. w:Zohran Mamdani The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech 2025-11-05 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/mamdani-speech-transcript.html No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election. https://web.archive.org/web/20251110155814/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/mamdani-speech-transcript.html 10 November 2025 Usage notes This term is generally used to describe discrimination against Muslims and Islam on the basis of fear, misunderstanding, ignorance or political bias. However, it is sometimes abused by Islamists and extreme Muslims, who claim that opposition to their beliefs is also opposition against Islam in general. Synonyms en Muslimophobia uncommon, nonstandard en Muslimphobia Derived terms en anti-Islamophobia Related terms en Islamophobe Islamophobiac Islamophobian Islamophobic Islamophobism Translations fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims Afrikaans: af islamofobie Arabic: ar رُهَاب الْإِسْلَام m, ar إِسْلَامُوفُوبِيَا f ʔislāmufūbiyā Moroccan Arabic: ary إسلاموفوبيا f ʔislāmufūbiyā Armenian: hy իսլամաֆոբիա, hy իսլամատյացություն Azerbaijani: az islamofobiya Belarusian: be ісламафо́бія f Bulgarian: bg ислямофо́бия f Catalan: ca islamofòbia f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 伊斯蘭恐懼症 Yīsīlán kǒngjùzhèng, cmn 仇綠 chóulǜ, cmn 仇穆 chóumù Corsican: co islamufubia f, co islamufubìa f Czech: cs islamofobie f Danish: da islamofobi c Dutch: nl islamofobie f Estonian: et islamofoobia Finnish: fi islamofobia French: fr islamophobie f Galician: gl islamofobia f Georgian: ka ისლამოფობია German: de Islamophobie f, de Islamhass m, de Islamfeindlichkeit f, de Islamfeindschaft f Greek: el ισλαμοφοβία f Hebrew: he אסלאמופוביה Hindi: hi इस्लामभीति f Icelandic: is íslamsfælni Indonesian: id islamofobia Irish: ga Ioslamafóibe f Italian: it islamofobia f, it antislamismo m Japanese: ja イスラム恐怖症 Isuramu-kyōfushō Kazakh: kk ислам фобиясы Korean: ko ^이슬람 혐오증 Latvian: lv islāmfobija f Lithuanian: lt islamofobija f Macedonian: mk исламофо́бија f Malay: ms islamofobia Norwegian: Bokmål: nb islamofobi m Nynorsk: nn islamofobi m Occitan: oc islamofòbia f Persian: fa اسلام‌هراسی eslâm-harâsi, fa اسلام‌ستیزی f Polish: pl islamofobia f Portuguese: pt islamofobia f Romanian: ro islamofobie f Russian: ru исламофо́бия f Scots: sco Islamophobie Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh исламофобија f Latin: sh islamofobija f Slovak: sk islamofóbie f Slovene: sl islamofobija f Spanish: es islamofobia f Swedish: sv islamofobi c Turkish: tr islamofobi, tr İslamofobi Ukrainian: uk ісламофо́бія f Urdu: ur اسلام دشمنی islām-duśmanī, ur اسلام ہراسی islām-hirāsī See also en anti-Arabism en anti-Jewism en anti-Semitism en anti-Muslimism en Christianophobia en Germanophobia en Judeophobia References Oxford English Dictionary (online) 2007 Anagrams en aabhiilmoops Somaliphobia en Forms of discrimination Islam Islamism Phobias Islamophobia