apartheid

English

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (RP, strictly) IPA: /əˈpɑːthaɪt/, /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pA:thaIt/, /@"pA:theIt/
• (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA: /əˈpɑrthaɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pArthaIt/

• Audio (US)

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• (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, IPA: /əˈpɑrtheɪt/, X-SAMPA: /@"pArtheIt/

• Audio (US)

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• Note: the h is very often not pronounced because of the difficulty of following /t/ by /h/; it is not pronounced as the digraph th (/ð/, /θ/).

Noun

apartheid (countable and uncountable; plural apartheids)

1. The policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 127-8:

     The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.

2. By extension, any similar policy of racial separation.

Quotations

• 1963 "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 [...]" — Lombard v. Louisiana 373 U.S. 267 (Justice William O. Douglas, concurring)

Translations

policy of racial separation in South Africa

Arabic: فصل عنصري (ar) (faṣl ʿunṣurī) m. Bulgarian: апартейд (bg) Catalan: apartheid (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 種族隔离 (cmn), 种族隔离 (cmn) (zhǒngzú gélí) Esperanto: apartismo (eo) Finnish: rotuerottelu (fi), apartheid (fi) French: apartheid (fr) m. Galician: apartheid (gl) m. German: Apartheid (de) f. Hungarian: apartheid (hu)

Italian: apartheid (it) m. Japanese: アパルトヘイド (ja) (aparutoheido), アパルトヘイト (ja) (aparutoheito) Portuguese: apartheid (pt) m. Russian: апартеид (ru) (aparteíd) m. Sardinian: apartheid m. Sicilian: apartheid (scn) m. Spanish: apartheid (es) m. Swedish: apartheid (sv) Turkish: apartheid (tr) Venetian: apartheid m.

any policy of racial separation

Arabic: فصل عنصري (ar) (faṣl ʿunṣurī) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 種族隔离 (cmn), 种族隔离 (cmn) (zhǒngzú gélí) Italian: apartheid (it) m.

Portuguese: apartheid (pt) m. Russian: апартеид (ru) (aparteíd) m. Spanish: apartheid (es) m.

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Afrikaans

Noun

apartheid

1. apartheid

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Finnish

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Etymology

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

Noun

apartheid

1. apartheid

Declension

Declension of apartheid (type risti) singular plural nominative apartheid apartheidit genitive apartheidin apartheidien partitive apartheidia apartheideja accusative apartheid apartheidin apartheidit inessive apartheidissa apartheideissa elative apartheidista apartheideista illative apartheidiin apartheideihin adessive apartheidilla apartheideilla ablative apartheidilta apartheideilta allative apartheidille apartheideille essive apartheidina apartheideina translative apartheidiksi apartheideiksi instructive – apartheidein abessive apartheiditta apartheideitta comitative – apartheideineen

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French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /a.paʁ.tɛjd/, X-SAMPA: /a.paR.tEjd/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Hyphenation: a‧par‧theid

Noun

apartheid m. inv.

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

Synonyms

• ségrégation
• ségrégationnisme
• séparation

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Italian

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Etymology

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

Noun

apartheid m. inv.

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

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Noun

apartheid m. (usually uncountable)

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