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English

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"For use by white persons": a sign in English and Afrikaans from the apartheid period.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (literally separateness, apartness) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (separate) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation, strictly) IPA(key): /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
  • (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA(key): /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/, /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
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  • Note: the h is very often not pronounced because of the difficulty of following /t/ with /h/, but the sequence is not pronounced as the digraph th (/ð/, /θ/).
  • (US, laxly) enPR: ə-pärʹtīd, IPA(key): /əˈpɑɹ.taɪd/

Noun

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apartheid (countable and uncountable, plural apartheids)

  1. (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
    Synonym: plural relations
  2. (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation or segregation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
    The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
    • 1963, Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
      When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public [] .
    • 2006 March 3, Leslie Feinberg, “Civil rights leaders were gay-baited, red-baited”, in Workers World[1]:
      Jim Crow miscegenation laws enforced apartheid in marriage.
  3. (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
    • 2008, Peter Hewitt, Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer's Account of the Mau Mau Emergency, →ISBN, page 64:
      Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.
    • 2009, Moorthy Muthuswamy, Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War, →ISBN, page 120:
      In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:apartheid.

Verb

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apartheid (third-person singular simple present apartheids, present participle apartheiding, simple past and past participle apartheided)

  1. To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
    • 1986, Stanlake John Thompson Samkange, On Trial for that U.D.I.: A Novel, page 79:
      Yes, apartheiding the apartheiders, is what the rest of the world is doing.
    • 1989, Instauration - Volumes 15-16, page 36:
      Whatever the reason the blacks have for "apartheiding" Boston, whites should be all for it.
    • 2003, Mayur K. Lakhani, A Celebration of General Practice, →ISBN, page 183:
      The most deadly of all ghosts are wandering over Britain and medicine, apartheiding people into superiors and nonentities.
    • 2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, →ISBN, page 151:
      Speaking of the resulting apartheiding of British Columbia, Cole Harris observed, "racism was built into the landscape of settlement."
    • 2011, Timothy J. Stanley, Contesting White Supremacy, →ISBN, page 64:
      By 1922, the apartheiding of British Columbia was cemented into a public and private English-language discourse that took for granted how and where one racialized body was placed in relation to another, and in turn how each related to the state system.

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch apartheid, equivalent to apart (separate, apart) +‎ -heid (-ness, -hood).

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apartheid (uncountable)

  1. apartheid

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌaːˈpɑrt.ɦɛi̯t/
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  • Hyphenation: apart‧heid

Etymology 1

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From apart (separate, apart) +‎ -heid (-hood).

Noun

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apartheid f (plural apartheden, diminutive apartheidje n)

  1. the state of being separate; separateness
  2. a characteristic that sets something or someone apart
Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: apartheid

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid, from Dutch apartheid.

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apartheid f (uncountable)

  1. the policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990; apartheid
  2. (by extension) any similar policy of racial separation
    • 2007 December 13, “Prins Claus en de NCO”, in Andere Tijden: VPRO:
      In januari 1972 komt een subsidieaanvraag binnen van het Angola Comité voor een boycotactie van koffie afkomstig uit Angola. Het land is in die tijd een provincie van Portugal, dat hardnekkig weigert de voormalige kolonie op te geven. De actie is tegen kolonialisme, rassendiscriminatie en apartheid.
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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans apartheid (literally separateness, apartness) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (separate) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.

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Noun

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apartheid

  1. apartheid

Declension

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Inflection of apartheid (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative apartheid apartheidit
genitive apartheidin apartheidien
partitive apartheidia apartheideja
illative apartheidiin apartheideihin
singular plural
nominative apartheid apartheidit
accusative nom. apartheid apartheidit
gen. apartheidin
genitive apartheidin apartheidien
partitive apartheidia apartheideja
inessive apartheidissa apartheideissa
elative apartheidista apartheideista
illative apartheidiin apartheideihin
adessive apartheidilla apartheideilla
ablative apartheidilta apartheideilta
allative apartheidille apartheideille
essive apartheidina apartheideina
translative apartheidiksi apartheideiksi
abessive apartheiditta apartheideitta
instructive apartheidein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of apartheid (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

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French

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans apartheid (literally separateness, apartness) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (separate) +‎ -heid (cognate of English -hood).

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apartheid m (plural apartheid)

  1. (history) apartheid (racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990)
  2. apartheid (any policy of racial separation)

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid (South Africa policy of racial separation, literally separateness, apartness), from Dutch apartheid.

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  • IPA(key): [aparˈteɪt̚]
  • Hyphenation: apar‧théid

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aparthéid (uncountable)

  1. (historical) apartheid: the policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid (literally separateness, apartness) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (separate) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.parˈtajd/, (careful style) /a.parˈtɛjd/, (careful style) /a.parˈtejd/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ajd, (careful style) -ɛjd, (careful style) -ejd

Noun

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apartheid m (invariable)

  1. (history) apartheid (racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990)
  2. apartheid (any policy of racial separation)

References

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  1. ^ apartheid in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • apartheid in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans apartheid.

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apartheid m (definite singular apartheiden, uncountable)

  1. apartheid

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans apartheid.

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apartheid m (definite singular apartheiden, uncountable)

  1. apartheid

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid.

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apartheid m inan

  1. (historical) apartheid (policy of racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990)

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Further reading

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  • apartheid in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • apartheid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • apartheid in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid, from Dutch apartheid.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.paʁˈtaj.d͡ʒi/ [a.pahˈtaɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paʁˈtej.d͡ʒi/ [a.pahˈteɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paʁˈtejd͡ʒ/ [a.pahˈteɪ̯d͡ʒ]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.paɾˈtaj.d͡ʒi/ [a.paɾˈtaɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paɾˈtej.d͡ʒi/ [a.paɾˈteɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paɾˈtejd͡ʒ/ [a.paɾˈteɪ̯d͡ʒ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.paʁˈtaj.d͡ʒi/ [a.paχˈtaɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paʁˈtej.d͡ʒi/ [a.paχˈteɪ̯.d͡ʒi], /a.paʁˈtejd͡ʒ/ [a.paχˈteɪ̯d͡ʒ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.paɻˈtaj.de/ [a.paɻˈtaɪ̯.de], /a.paɻˈtejd͡ʒ/ [a.paɻˈteɪ̯d͡ʒ], /a.paɻˈtej.d͡ʒi/ [a.paɻˈteɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

  • Hyphenation: apar‧theid

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apartheid m (plural apartheids)

  1. (historical) apartheid (policy of racial separation in South Africa)
  2. apartheid (any policy of racial separation)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid.

Noun

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apartheid n (uncountable)

  1. apartheid

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative apartheid apartheidul
genitive-dative apartheid apartheidului
vocative apartheidule

Slovak

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apartheid m inan (related adjective apartheidový)

  1. apartheid

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Further reading

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  • apartheid”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid (literally separateness, apartness) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (separate) + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /apaɾˈxeid/ [a.paɾˈxei̯ð̞]
  • Rhymes: -eid

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apartheid m (plural apartheids or apartheid)

  1. (history) apartheid (racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990)
  2. apartheid (any policy of racial separation)

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

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apartheid c

  1. (South africa, historical) apartheid
  2. (by extension) apartheid (more generally)

Declension

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Declension of apartheid
nominative genitive
singular indefinite apartheid apartheids
definite apartheiden apartheidens
plural indefinite
definite

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