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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BAASKAP

From Afrikaans, from baas + -skap-ship.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BAASKAP

baaskap  [ˈbɑːsˌkap] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAASKAP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Baaskap is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BAASKAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of baaskap in the English dictionary

The definition of baaskap in the dictionary is control by White people of non-White people.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BAASKAP


baasskap
ˈbɑːsˌkap

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BAASKAP

baa
baa-lamb
Baader-Meinhof Gang
Baal
Baal Shem Tov
Baalbek
baalebatim
baalebos
baalism
baas
baasskap
Bab
Bab el Mandeb
baba
baba gannoujh
baba ghanoush
babaco
babacoote
babalas

WORDS THAT END LIKE BAASKAP

ap
cap
cheap
crap
gap
Gluskap
lap
map
on the cheap
rap
site map
snap
soap
strap
swap
T-strap
tap
trap
wrap
yap

Synonyms and antonyms of baaskap in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «baaskap» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BAASKAP

Find out the translation of baaskap to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of baaskap from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «baaskap» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

baaskap
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

baaskap
570 millions of speakers

English

baaskap
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

baaskap
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

baaskap
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

baaskap
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baaskap
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

baaskap
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

baaskap
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Baaskap
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

baaskap
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

baaskap
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

baaskap
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Baaskap
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

baaskap
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

baaskap
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बास्कॅप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

baaskap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

baaskap
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

baaskap
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

baaskap
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

baaskap
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

baaskap
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

baaskap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

baaskap
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

baaskap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of baaskap

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BAASKAP»

The term «baaskap» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.212 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BAASKAP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «baaskap» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «baaskap» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about baaskap

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAASKAP»

Discover the use of baaskap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to baaskap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of ...
And underpinning apartheid was baaskap. Baaskap does not have a direct equivalent in English. Literally translated it means 'bossedness', but it also carries the implication that the natural role of white people is that of superiors, the natural  ...
Henry C. Plotkin, 2002
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The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, ...
Despite the Western World's attraction to scientific racism during this period, public racial policy that conformed openly and explicitly to the master- slave model (in South Africa called baaskap) was an anachronism that could not be ...
George M. Fredrickson, 1989
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A History of Africa: African nationalism and the ...
Fundamentally, the Nationalist Party stood for baaskap (white domination or ' mastership'), and everybody knew what baaskap meant. Apartheid then, as a policy, was not defined, and came to "mean a number of things from social and racial ...
Assa Okoth, 2006
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From the South African past: narratives, documents, and debates
It had two policy rivals — baaskap and liberalism — and segregationists had to compete with proponents of both. Baaskap is the enforcement of white domination, pure and simple. Under this theory, Africans would work for whites, and any ...
John A. Williams, 1997
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The Evolution of Cultural Entities
For half a century, apartheid in South Africa deprived the majority of South Africans of their fundamental rights, including an adequate education. Apartheid was the material expression of the social construction called baaskap (an Afrikaans ...
Michael Wheeler, John Ziman, Margaret A. Boden, 2002
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Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa
The different career trajectories of Eiselen and Verwo- erd serve as apt metaphors for the victory of the baaskap school. Eiselen was put out to pasture in 1959, kicked upstairs to the ceremonial position of "Ambassador to the North Tswana ...
Ivan Thomas Evans, 1997
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Apartheid, 1948-1994
At the level of official policy apartheid ideology evolved from the pronouncement of white domination—baaskap—to an elaborate and obfuscatory ideology of ' multi-national' development. Verwoerd himself signalled the shift to 'positive' ...
Saul Dubow, 2014
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Constituting Human Rights: Global Civil Society and the ...
'Baaskap' refers to the status of 'Master'. In this case the 'Master' relationship was over 'Blacks' who were understood to be underlings. Of course, many people who professed themselves to be respecters of human rights accepted the ...
Mervyn Frost, 2003
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely ...
Nonetheless, we went through the motions for Mr. Randolph and Bayard. You know the Boers in South Africa had a term in Afrikaans for that attitude, baaskap. That was the guiding principle behind apartheid. Baaskap, 333 Of Marches, ...
Stokely Carmichael, 2003
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By Due Process of Law?: Racial Discrimination and the Right ...
It believes in the supremacy (baaskap) of the European in his sphere, but, then, it also believes equally in the supremacy (baaskap) of the Bantu in his sphere”.30 The 'spheres' would be manifestly unequal in the short and mid-term. Verwoerd ...
Ian Loveland, 1999

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAASKAP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term baaskap is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why we've rejected employers latest wage offer - NUMSA
... and primitive attitude that smells like the old apartheid baaskap mentality: that of seeing Black and African workers as slaves who must simply ... «Politicsweb, Jul 14»
2
The triumph of black racial communalism
... we would retain baaskap." "Race Federation" was, in other words, a slogan which could be decoded differently by different groups of people, ... «Politicsweb, Dec 13»
3
City Press under the spotlight; or, when newspapers become news
If you don't like it, be brave and make the space for them and go and work somewhere where racism, superiority and reverse baaskap are ... «Daily Maverick, Oct 13»
4
Cosatu face-off: Frans Baleni versus Irvin Jim
As we speak, both Numsa and Sactwu are directly facing old “baaskap” mentality, where employers in the private sector are attacking ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Apr 13»
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South African President Zuma's House and Corruption
Yet today's ANC leaders, it seems, have mastered apartheid's lessons of greed and baaskap all too well. When it comes to South African public ... «Council on Foreign Relations, Mar 13»
6
Afrikaners and the Second World War
... grievances, along with these veterans supporting the NP's absolute commitment to protecting white workers through baaskap apartheid laws. «Politicsweb, Mar 12»
7
Anti-name change lobby to lodge objection soon
Old habits die hard. Baaskap has long gone and these minority in Makhado must just tow the line or just vamus to ... «Sowetan, Oct 11»
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Reporter's Notebook: South African Society Shaped by Racial …
Ghostly remnants of the “baaskap,” or rule by the bosses, still pop up in daily social exchanges, when blacks reflexively become obsequious to ... «NewsHour, Feb 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Baaskap [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/baaskap>. Apr 2024 ».
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