Masculine

apartheid

Meaning

  1. (masculine) apartheid (racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994)
  2. (masculine) apartheid (any policy of racial segregation)

Concepts

Synonyms

desarrollo separado

Translations

apartheid

segregazione razziale

apartheid

απαρτχάιντ

ségrégation des populations noire et blanche

φυλετικός διαχωρισμός

πολιτική φυλετικού διαχωρισμού

Frequency

40k
Hyphenated as
a‧part‧heid
Pronounced as (IPA)
/apaɾˈxeid/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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