diff --git a/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest b/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
index db0c01a10ddf7..e7e01007ac6d5 100644
--- a/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/harfbuzz/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST harfbuzz-11.4.5.tar.xz 18150652 BLAKE2B a4a392c238857c414ee7659926a8e5c857e35079d47f65d69713b1c77c0e12b12ad34b432dbf339a3aed2160e7f23e1403d5036d66e47c9748b9eda3b95484a2 SHA512 c0c55a2201538a9e9365b175ccc7d4df2b0e321f9a723c7c83879bdc8b40cb9fac3ed257cecf9960cc3a17ceac0dc0220a6b9dfa976ce3dd7cb03154a55ad868
 DIST harfbuzz-11.5.1.tar.xz 18212420 BLAKE2B 0d5fc089a8bd1506bd4a77c3804c32537288b21c7af472806672bad7eea85012392d62f0c28bf24cc7049c919719c1bddbcce1cd2da1950a4034579086b3c76d SHA512 c5525837cba6fd2d79660ffcf4069b107fa60eec21daeb89fb529c9b2a388392e92aca896c503fdd9545050ffc8e831281141fcfe816fee74b997a465ff2b528
 DIST harfbuzz-12.1.0.tar.xz 18208424 BLAKE2B 126fd2f5028a2b99652dfca2948b43bf83f6ff498e067d561adbd686b24b4b496153cb6acc8ede412bd0ac407e08422fb40b0224206a7c45736969c10b62cfaa SHA512 94cbc3fe8fad30f4f7871bdddc8b129c486ab55329f9b48c6336fdf15d05f09c3c96cac51f68a0218db113b4783c07ce5d6bb455ccc875b31fd2261e3e8dc559
+DIST harfbuzz-12.2.0.tar.xz 18221900 BLAKE2B 011ce54ee0f312dbe6fff600ff986309c3ca8935f79dc8e7aa4fa29c61a364b62b097eba1bfafdcb337475a86bd50ea75ad2eb9315c7f188069e7c5370b53434 SHA512 7e7cd5dfdbf8848c3c078628f2cf355db6dcc938083fa7d2f69ab6f174041dc64fae1973f97a1649dfcf9f2bf143517329efb3f67ccfe8996eb84b6ff52f4029
diff --git a/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-12.2.0.ebuild b/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-12.2.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..424e2fdd2ba38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-libs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-12.2.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+
+inherit flag-o-matic meson-multilib python-any-r1 xdg-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="An OpenType text shaping engine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://harfbuzz.github.io/"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] ; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Old-MIT ISC icu"
+# 0.9.18 introduced the harfbuzz-icu split; bug #472416
+# 3.0.0 dropped some unstable APIs; bug #813705
+# 6.0.0 changed libharfbuzz-subset.so ABI
+SLOT="0/6.0.0"
+
+IUSE="+cairo debug doc experimental +glib +graphite icu +introspection test +truetype"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+REQUIRED_USE="introspection? ( glib )"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	cairo? ( x11-libs/cairo:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	glib? ( >=dev-libs/glib-2.38:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	graphite? ( >=media-gfx/graphite2-1.2.1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	icu? ( >=dev-libs/icu-51.2-r1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.82.0-r2:= )
+	truetype? ( >=media-libs/freetype-2.5.0.1:2=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	sys-apps/help2man
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	doc? ( dev-util/gtk-doc )
+	introspection? ( dev-util/glib-utils )
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	xdg_environment_reset
+
+	# bug #790359
+	filter-flags -fexceptions -fthreadsafe-statics
+
+	if ! use debug ; then
+		append-cppflags -DHB_NDEBUG
+	fi
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	# harfbuzz-gobject only used for introspection, bug #535852
+	local emesonargs=(
+		-Dcoretext=disabled
+		-Dchafa=disabled
+		-Dfontations=disabled
+		-Dwasm=disabled
+
+		$(meson_feature cairo)
+		$(meson_feature glib)
+		$(meson_feature graphite graphite2)
+		$(meson_feature icu)
+		$(meson_feature introspection gobject)
+		$(meson_feature test tests)
+		$(meson_feature truetype freetype)
+
+		$(meson_native_use_feature doc docs)
+		$(meson_native_use_feature introspection)
+		# Breaks building tests..
+		#$(meson_native_use_feature utilities)
+
+		$(meson_use experimental experimental_api)
+	)
+
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+multilib_src_test() {
+	# harfbuzz:src / check-static-inits times out on hppa
+	meson_src_test --timeout-multiplier 5
+}