different between bye vs sayonara

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: bi, buy, by

Etymology 1

Variant form of by, from Old English b? (being near).

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

   Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

2. (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
3. (obsolete) A dwelling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gibson to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.

   • The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.

5. (card games) A pass.

Derived terms

• (cricket): leg bye

Etymology 2

Shortened form of goodbye.

Interjection

bye

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.

Derived terms

• tatty bye

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: baj
• ? Faroese: bei

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee

Anagrams

• Bey, Eby, bey

Afrikaans

Noun

bye

1. plural of by

French

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

   Allez bye ! À la revoyure.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye

1. bye, goodbye

Synonyms

• alvida
• orevwar

Middle English

Noun

bye

1. A ring or torque; a bracelet.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

     And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/

Noun

bye f or m (definite singular bya or byen, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bya, bøya, bøye

Etymology

From Dutch bui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²by?.?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

bye f (definite singular bya, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

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Derived terms

References

• “bye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Alternative forms

• buye

Etymology

From Middle English boye.

Noun

bye

1. boy

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???? (sayonara), shorter form of more traditional ????? (say?nara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa???n????/
• Rhymes: -????

Interjection

sayonara

1. (informal, often humorous, especially used when referring to Japan) Goodbye, adieu.

   Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, ciao, farewell, goodbye, good day, shalom, so long, tot ziens

Translations

Noun

sayonara (plural sayonaras)

1. An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???? (sayonara), shorter form of more traditional ????? (say?nara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sajo?nara]
• Hyphenation: sa?yo?na?ra

Interjection

sayonara

1. (informal, often humorous, especially used when referring to Japan) Goodbye, adieu.

Further reading

• “sayonara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

sayonara

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Spanish

Etymology

From the Japanese ????? (say?nara) or ???? (sayonara, “goodbye”), maybe by analogy with getas, the Japanese wooden clogs. Cognate with Greek ????????? (sagionára).This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

sayonara f (plural sayonaras)

1. (Peru) [[flip-flop, thong]] (Australia), jandal (New Zealand)

   Synonyms: bamba, chancla, chola, ojota, slap