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.