apartheid
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See also: Apartheid
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation, strictly) IPA(key): /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
- (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA(key): /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/, /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
- 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
apartheid (countable and uncountable, plural apartheids)
- (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
- Synonym: plural relations
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, pages 127-128:
- 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.
- (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/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 […] .
- (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
apartheid (third-person singular simple present apartheids, present participle apartheiding, simple past and past participle apartheided)
- 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.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- anti-apartheidism
- anti-apartheidist
- apartheid anthem
- apartheider
- apartheidesque
- apartheid flag
- apartheidic
- apartheidisation
- apartheidish
- apartheidism
- apartheidist
- apartheidistic
- apartheidization
- apartheidize
- apartheidlike
- apartheidness
- ecoapartheid
- eco-apartheid
- grand apartheid
- petty apartheid
- postapartheid
- preapartheid
Related terms
Translations
policy of racial separation in South Africa
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any policy of racial separation — see also segregation
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a policy or situation of separation based on some specified attribute — see also segregation
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Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
apartheid (uncountable)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From apart (“separate, apart”) + -heid (“-hood”).
Noun
apartheid f (plural apartheden, diminutive apartheidje n)
- the state of being separate; separateness
- a characteristic that sets something or someone apart
Descendants
- Afrikaans: apartheid
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid, from Dutch apartheid.
Noun
apartheid f (uncountable)
- the policy of racial separation used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990; apartheid
- (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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Derived terms
- apartheidsbeleid
- apartheidspolitiek
Anagrams
Etymology
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
Noun
apartheid
Declension
| Inflection of apartheid (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| 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. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “apartheid”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Etymology
From Afrikaans apartheid (literally “separateness, apartness”) (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + -heid (cognate of English -hood).
Pronunciation
Noun
apartheid m (plural apartheid)
- (history) apartheid (racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990)
- apartheid (any policy of racial separation)
Synonyms
Anagrams
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans apartheid (“South Africa policy of racial separation”, literally “separateness, apartness”), from Dutch apartheid.
Pronunciation
Noun
aparthéid (first-person possessive apartheidku, second-person possessive apartheidmu, third-person possessive apartheidnya)
- (historical) apartheid: the policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “apartheid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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