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apartheid

/apaɾˈxeid/

noun, masculine/apaɾˈxeid/plural: apartheids

apartheid (racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994); apartheid (any policy of racial segregation)

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.

apartheid — Spanish Dictionary | Passage