Word.ws English Dictionary

hijabophobia

hijabophobia noun: fear of hijabs; Islamophobia directed at hijabi women.

Noun

hijabophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of hijabs; Islamophobia directed at hijabi women.

Origin of hijabophobia

From hijab + -o- + -phobia. Attested in books at least as early as 1999, but popularized much later by scholars like Manal Hamzeh in 2012.

Questions about hijabophobia

What does hijabophobia mean?
Hijabophobia means fear of hijabs; Islamophobia directed at hijabi women.
What part of speech is hijabophobia?
Hijabophobia is a noun.

Words near hijabophobia in the dictionary

  1. hijabize
  2. hijabized
  3. hijabizes
  4. hijabizing
  5. hijabless
  6. hijabophobia
  7. hijabs
  8. hijabster
  9. hijabsters
  10. hijack
  11. hijackable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hijabophobia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hijabophobia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hijabophobia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.