sayonara

See also: sayōnara

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese さよなら (sayonara), a shorter form of more traditional さようなら (sayōnara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪəˈnɑːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə

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

   • 2001 June 23, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Adventure 2, Sega, published 2001:

     Sonic: Sayonara! Shadow the Hedgehog!

Descendants

• → Greek: σαγιονάρα (sagionára)
• → Spanish: sayonara

Translations

goodbye, adieu — see farewell

goodbye, in reference to Japan

• Arabic: سَايُونَارَا (sāyūnārā)
• Georgian: საიონარა (saionara)
• Greek: σαγιονάρα (el) (sagionára)
• Hebrew: סַיּוֹנַרַה (sayonárah)
• Hungarian: szajonara (hu)
• Indonesian: sayonara
• Japanese: さようなら (ja) (sayōnara), さよなら (ja) (sayonara)
• Korean: 사요나라 (sayonara)
• Persian: سایونارا (sâyonârâ)
• Polish: sajonara
• Russian: сайона́ра (sajonára), саёнара (sajónara)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сајонара

  Roman: sajonara

• Thai: ซาโยนาระ (saa-yoo-naa-rá)
• Yiddish: סייַאָנאַראַ (sayonara)

Noun

sayonara (plural sayonaras)

1. An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.
   • 1999, Hell to Pay, →ISBN, page 19:

     After a simply marvelous, entertaining two and a half hour meal, they reclaimed their shoes and ceremoniously bid their sayonaras to the Japanese girls.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese さよなら (sayonara), a shorter form of more traditional さようなら (sayōnara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sajoˈnara]
• 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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

sayonara

1. Rōmaji transcription of さよなら

Polish

Alternative forms

• sajonara

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese さよなら (sayonara), a shorter form of more traditional さようなら (sayōnara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.jɔˈna.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: sa‧yo‧na‧ra

Interjection

sayonara

1. (colloquial) sayonara, farewell

Further reading

• sayonara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sayonara, from Japanese さよなら (sayonara), a shorter form of more traditional さようなら (sayōnara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”). Use for footwear comes from first seeing this footwear in the 1957 film Sayonara. Cognate with Greek σαγιονάρα (sagionára, “flip-flop, thong, jandal”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /saʝoˈnaɾa/ [sa.ʝoˈna.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /saʝoˈnaɾa/ [sa.ʝoˈna.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /saʃoˈnaɾa/ [sa.ʃoˈna.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /saʒoˈnaɾa/ [sa.ʒoˈna.ɾa]

• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: sa‧yo‧na‧ra

Noun

sayonara f (plural sayonaras)

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

   Synonyms: bamba, chancla, chola, ojota, slap