bye

See also: Bye and 'bye

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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. 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.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     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

Translations

short for goodbye — See also translations at goodbye

• Arabic: إِلَى اللِّقَاء‎ (ar) (ʾilā l-liqāʾ), مَعَ السَّلَامَة‎ (ar) (maʿa s-salāma), سَلَام‎ (ar) (salām)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَعَ السَّلَامَة‎ (maʿa s-salāma), سَلَام‎ (salām), باي‎ (bāy)

• Armenian: բարով (hy) (barov)
• Azerbaijani: xudafiz
• Bambara: a k'an be
• Bulgarian: ча́о (čáo)
• Catalan: adéu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拜拜 (baai^3-1 baai³), 再見, 再见 (zoi³ gin³)

  Mandarin: 再見 (zh), 再见 (zh) (zàijiàn), 再會 (zh), 再会 (zh) (zàihuì), 回見 (zh), 回见 (zh) (huíjiàn), 拜拜 (zh) (bàibài, bāibái, báibái), 88 (bābā) (SMS slang)

  Min Nan: please add this translation if you can

• Chukchi: виин (viin), аʼтав (aʼtav)
• Czech: ahoj (cs), čau (cs) (informal), nashle (cs) (shortened form of na shledanou, informal)
• Dutch: dag (nl), doei (nl), doeg (nl); tot ziens (nl) (‘see you’), tot weerziens (nl) (‘see you again’, dated), tot kijk (‘see you’), tot gauw (‘see you soon’), laters (nl) (informal, ‘until later’); hoie (Limburgish), houdoe (nl) (Brabantian); zwaai (nl) (informal); toedels (informal), toedeltjes (informal), toedelpip (informal), toedeloe (nl) (informal), toedeledokie (nl) (informal, can signify disapproval); tabee (nl) (informal); moi (nl) (informal, also used for hello); adieu (nl) (a bit formal), aju (nl) (informal), ajuus (nl) (informal), joe (nl) (informal), jo (nl) (informal); ciao (nl) (informal)
• Esperanto: ĝis (eo)
• Estonian: tsau (et)
• Faroese: bei, adjø
• Finnish: hei (fi), heippa (fi), moikka (fi)
• French: salut (fr)
• Galician: abur (gl), (familiar) aburiño (gl), adeus (gl)
• Georgian: ნახვამდის (naxvamdis)
• German: tschüss (de), tschö, tschau (de)
• Hebrew: ביי ביי‎
• Hindi: अलविदा (hi) (alvidā), विदा (hi) (vidā)
• Icelandic: bæ (is) (colloquial), bless bless (is), bæjó (colloquial)

• Ido: til (io), chao (io)
• Igbo: ngwānụ
• Indonesian: sampai (id)
• Japanese: またね (mata ne), さようなら (ja) (sayounara), では (dewa), じゃ (ja) (ja), じゃ、また (ja, mata), バイバイ (ja) (baibai)
• Khmer: លាហើយ (liəhaəy)
• Korean: 안녕 (ko) (annyeong), 잘 있어 (jal isseo) (informal, person leaving), 잘 가 (jal ga) (informal, person remaining), 빠이빠이 (ppaippai)
• Lao: ສະບາຍດີ (sa bāi dī), ໄປກ່ອນ (pai kǭn)
• Latvian: atā (lv), sveiks, uz redzēšanos (lv)
• Lithuanian: iki (lt)
• Malay: bai (slang)
• Maltese: ċaw
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: अलविदा (alavidā)
• Norwegian: adjø (no), farvel, ha det bra
• Polish: (colloquial) na razie; (familiar) pa, pa pa
• Portuguese: tchau (pt), até mais (pt), até logo (pt) (see you soon, a bit formal), até breve (see you soon, formal), adeus (pt) (formal, leaving for long)
• Romanian: pa (ro)
• Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká), бай-ба́й (ru) (baj-báj), ча́о (ru) (čáo), уви́димся (ru) (uvídimsja)
• Sinhalese: ආයුබෝ (āyubō)
• Slovene: adíjo, čáo
• Spanish: adiós (es), chau (es), chao (es)
• Swedish: hej då (sv), adjö (sv), farväl (sv), hej (sv) ha det bra
• Thai: บาย (th) (baai)
• Tibetan: ག་ལེ་ཕེབས (ga le phebs) (by the one staying), ག་ལེ་ཞུགས (ga le zhugs) (by the one going)
• White Hmong: mus zoo

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee

Anagrams

• Bey, Eby, bey

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Afrikaans

Noun

bye

1. plural of by

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French

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

   Allez bye ! À la revoyure.

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English bye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye

1. bye, goodbye

Synonyms

• alvida
• orevwar

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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.

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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