bye

See also 'bye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /baɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: bi, buy, by

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. (sports) 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.
   • Fuller

     The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England.

Derived terms

• (cricket): leg bye

Etymology 2

Shortened form of goodbye.

Interjection

bye

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.

Derived terms

• tatty bye

Translations

short for goodbye

• Arabic: إلى اللقاء (ar) ('ílaa al-liqaa'), باي باي (ar) (bay bay)
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Bambara: a k'an be
• Bulgarian: чао (bg) (chao)
• Catalan: adéu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再見 (cmn), 再见 (cmn) (zàijiàn), 再會 (cmn), 再会 (cmn) (zàihuì), 拜拜 (cmn) (bàibài, bāibái, báibái), 88 (cmn) (bābā) (SMS slang)

• Czech: nashle (cs)
• Danish: farvel (da)
• Dutch: dag (nl), doei (nl), tot ziens (nl), hoie (nl) (Limburgish), houdoe (nl) (Brabantian), doeg (nl)
• Filipino: paalam
• Finnish: hei (fi), heippa (fi)
• French: salut (fr)
• Galician: abur (gl), (familiar) aburiño (gl), adeus (gl)
• Georgian: ნახვამდის (ka) (naxvamdis)
• German: tschüss (de)
• Greek: γειά (el) (yá)
• Hindi: अलविदा (hi) (alvidā), विदा (hi) (vidā)

• Icelandic: bæ (is)
• Igbo: ngwānụ
• Indonesian: sampai (id)
• Italian: ciao (it)
• Japanese: では (ja) (dewa), またね (ja) (mata ne), じゃ、また (ja) (ja, mata), バイバイ (ja) (bai-bai), バイ (ja) (bai)
• Korean: 안녕 (ko) (annyeong)
• Lithuanian: iki (lt)
• Malay: bai (ms) (slang)
• Maltese: ċaw (mt)
• Norwegian: adjø (no)
• Polish: (colloquial) na razie; (familiar) pa, pa pa
• Portuguese: tchau (pt)
• Romanian: pa (ro)
• Russian: пока (ru) (poká), бай-бай (ru) (baj-báj)
• Slovene: adíjo (sl), čáo (sl)
• Spanish: adiós (es), chau (es), chao (es)
• Swedish: hej då (sv), adjö (sv), farväl (sv)
• Thai: บาย (th) (baai)
• Uyghur: خوش (ug) (xosh)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by.

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee.

Anagrams

• bey

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French

Etymology

From English bye

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

   Allez bye ! À la revoyure.