Goodbye in many languages

These are phrases you use when parting from others. In some languages those leaving and those staying each use different phrases. The English word goodbye comes from the Old English God þē mid sīe, which means "God be with you".

Glossary of abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal, sg = singular (said to one person), pl = plural (said to more than one person), >m = said to men, >f = said to women.

Language	Goodbye
Afrikaans	Totsiens / Mooi loop (go/walk well)
Albanian	Pacim, Mirupafshim
Alsatian	Or'var
Arabic (Egyptian)	(bai) باي (ma'is salāma) مع السّلامة
Arabic (Lebanese)	Ma3 el saleme
Arabic (Modern Standard)	(ilā al-liqā') إلى اللقاء (ma'a as-salāmah) مع السلامة
Aragonese	Adiós / Adixatz / Dica luego / Que vaiga bueno
Arapaho	Heetce'noohobe3en
Armenian (Eastern)	Ց'տեսություն (Ts.tesutyun) Հաջողությո'ւն: (Hajoghutyun)
Armenian (Western)	Ցտեսութիւն: (Tsuhdesootyoon) Յաջողութիւն: (Hachoghootyoon) Մնաք բարով: (Muhnak parov) - leaving Երթաք բարով: (Yertak parov) - staying
Assamese	বিদায় (biḍai)
Asturian	Hasta dempués / Hasta llueu / Ta llueu / Dica llueu / Ta mañana / Ta pronto /Ta la prósima
Azeri	Sağol, Xudahafiz (inf) Sağolun, Salamat qalın, Görüşənədək (frm)
Basque	Agur
Belarusian	Да пабачэньня (Da pabachen'nya) Убачымся (Ubachymsia)
Bengali	আসি? (ashi?) lit. 'may I come?' = 'may I leave?' ভালো থাকবেন। (bhalo thakben) lit. 'stay well' - frm ভালো থেকো। (bhalo theko) - inf বিদায় নিচ্ছি। (bidae nicchhi) lit. 'I am bidding farewell' খোদা হাফেজ। (khoda hafez) lit. 'the lord is the keeper' - used by Muslims
Bosnian	Alahimanet / Zbogom / Do viđenja / Ćao / Zdravo
Breton	Kenavo / Ken ar wech all
Bulgarian	Довиждане (Doviždane) frm Чао (Čao) inf Всичко хубаво (Vsičko hubavo) Сбогом (Sbogom) До скоро! (Do skoro) - see you soon До утре! (Do utre) - till tomorrow
Catalan	Adéu (goodbye), A reveure (see you), Que vagi bé (take care), Fins ara (see you soon), Fins després (see you later), Ja ens veurem (we'll be in touch), Fins demà (see you tomorrow)
Cebuano	Babay (inf) Manamilit na ko, Hangtod sa sunod, Ayoayo, Magkita lang ta puhon, Dalayegon sa Diyos (God bless)
Chamorro	Ådios Esta / Åsta (inf)
Cherokee	ᏙᎾᏓᎬᎰᎢ (Donadagvhoi) >1p ᏙᏓᏓᎪᎲᎢ (Dodadagohvi) >pl
Chinese (Cantonese)	再見 (joigin) 拜拜 (bāaibaai)
Chinese (Hakka)	再見 (tsai⁵kien⁵) 拜拜 (pai⁵pai⁵)
Chinese (Mandarin)	再見 [再见] (zàijiàn) 拜拜 (bàibài)
Chinese (Shanghainese)	再会 (tzewe) 明朝会 (mintzowê)
Chinese (Teochew)	请 (chia²)
Cornish	Dyw genes (sg), Dyw genowgh (pl) Dha weles (see you) Dha weles skon (See you soon) Dha weles diwettha (See you later) Dha weles a-vorow (See you tomorrow) Benetugana, Dew boz geno, Tereba nessa
Corsican	Avvedeci / À a prossima / À dopu
Croatian	Zbogom / Doviđenja
Czech	Nashledanou Čau
Danish	Farvel
Dutch	Tot ziens, Tot straks (see you later) Tot gauw (see you soon), Dag, Doeg, Doei
Esperanto	Ĝis poste, Ĝis (la) revido, Ĝis la, Ĝis, Adiaŭ
Estonian	Nägemiseni (head aega)
Faroese	Farvæl, Bei, Vit síggjast
Fijian	Ni sa moce
Filipino	Magandang gabi
Finnish	Näkemiin
French	Au revoir / À bientôt
Frisian (North)	Adjiis
Frisian (West)	Oant sjen
Friulian	A riviodisi / A bon riviodisi
Galician	Adeus
Georgian	ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
German	Auf Wiedersehen (frm) Tschüss, Tschö, Tschau/Ciao, Servus (inf) Bis dann, Bis bald, Bis später
German (Bavarian)	Servus / Auf Wieda̦schaung
Swiss German	Uf Widerluege / Ciao / Tschüss / Bis spöter / Sali / Adieu
Greek (Modern)	Γειά σας (ya sas) - frm, Γειά σου (ya su) - inf Αντίο (adio)
Greenlandic	Takuss (short parting) Ajunnginniarna / Inuulluarina (long parting)
Gujarati	આવ્જો (āvjo)
Haitian Creole	Adye / Orevwa / Babay N a wè pi ta / A pi ta (see you later) A demen (until tomorrow)
Hausa	Sai sannu / Sai an jima / Sai Gobe
Hawaiian	A hui hou, Aloha
Hebrew	(lehitraot) להתראות
Hindi	नमस्ते (namaste) फिर मिलेंगे (phir milenge)
Hungarian	Szia / Viszlát (inf) Viszontlátásra (frm)
Icelandic	Vertu blessaður (>m) Vertu blessuð (>f) Bless á meðan / Bless bless (inf) Við sjáumst / Sjáumst síðar (see you later)
Iloko	Agpakadaakon, Kastan/Kasta pay, Sige, Innakon
Indonesian	Selamat tinggal (you're leaving) Selamat jalan (you're staying) Sampai jumpa lagi
Inuktitut	ᐃᓛᓂᓗ Ilaanilu ᑕᓪᕙᐅᔪᑎᑦ Talvauyutin/Tagvauyutit ᑕᕝᕙᐅᔪᑎᑦ (Tavvaujutit) - to one person ᑕᕝᕙᐅᔪᓯ (Tavvaujusi) - to many people ᐊᑦᓱᓇᐃ Atsunai
Iñupiaq	Tautugniaqmiġikpiñ / Qiñiġisilgitkikpiñ
Irish (Gaelic)	Slán, Slán go fóill
Italian	Ciao / Ci vediamo / Arrivederci / Arrivederla (frm)
Italian (Roman dialect)	Arrivedece (informal), ArrivedeLa (formal)
Japanese	さようなら (sayōnara) いって来ます (ittekimasu) - 'I'll be back' - you are leaving いってらっしゃい (itterasshai) - 'come back soon' - you are staying じゃあまたね (jā mata ne) - see you later
Jèrriais	À bétôt, À bi, À la préchaine, À tantôt
Kannada	ಹೋಗಿ ಬನ್ನಿ ಅಥವಾ ಹೋಗಿ ಬರ್ತೀರಾ? (hogi banni athavā hogi bartēra?)
Kazakh	Сау болыңыз! (Saw bolıñız!)
Khmer	លាសិនហើយ (lia suhn hao-y) ជួបគ្នាថ្ងៃក្រោយ (juab kh'nia th'ngay)
Kinyarwanda	Murabeho / Mwirirwe (afternoon) / Muramuke (evening) / Turongera
Klallam	húy’
Korean	안녕 (annyeong) 안녕히 계세요 (annyeonghi gyeseyo) - you are leaving 안녕히 가세요 (annyeonghi gaseyo) - you are staying
Ladino	(Adío) אדיו
Lakota Sioux	Tókša akhé waŋčhíŋyaŋkiŋ kte Tókša akhé
Latin	Vale / Aveto (sg) Valete / Avetote (pl)
Latvian	Uz redzēšanos
Lithuanian	Viso gero
Low Saxon	Adjüüs / Tschüüs
Luxembourgish	Äddi / Awar
Macedonian	Довидување (Doviduvanye), Догледање (Dogledanye)
Maldivian	Dhanee
Manx (Gaelic)	Slane lhiat Bannaght lhiat/lhiu, Hee'm oo/shiu
Māori	E noho rā (said by person leaving) E haere rā (said by person staying) Hei kona rā (inf)
Malay	Selamat tinggal (you're leaving) Selamat jalan (you're staying) Sampai jumpa lagi
Malayalam	എന്നാത് ആകട്ടേ (ennāl ākaṭṭē) പൊയിവരട്ടെ (poyivaraṭṭe)
Maltese	Ċaw / Saħħa / Saħħiet (pl)
Mauritian Creole	Orewar
Mongolian	Баяртай (Bayartai) Дараа уулзая (Daraa uulzii!) see you later Маргааш уулзая (Margaash uulzii) see you tomorrow
Nepali	नमस्ते (namaste)
Navajo	Hágoónee' / Náá'ahidiiltsééh Lá'aa, hágoónee' (response)
Norwegian	Ha det bra / Hade (inf) / Adjø / Farvel
Occitan	A lèu! Adieu! Adieussiatz!
Okinawan	今から行じ来ゅーん (namakara nji chuun) I'll be back - you are leaving (inf) 今から行じ来ゃーびら (namakara nji chaabira) I'll be back - you are leaving (frm) いめんしぇーびり (imensheebiri) come back soon - you are staying (frm) めんそーれー (mensooree) come back soon - you are staying (inf) 行じめんそーれー (nji mensooree) come back soon - you are staying (inf) 行じめんしぇーびり (nji mensheebiri) come back soon - you are staying (frm) 御無礼さびら (guburii sabira) 行じ来ゃーびら (njichaabira) 暇拝なびら (ituma wuganabira) 又ん御行会ー拝なびら (mata n wuichee wuganabira) lit. let's meet again (frm) 又ん御行会ー拝ま (mata n wuichee wugama) lit. let's meet again (inf) また明日拝ま (mata acha wugama) lit. let's meet again tomorrow (inf) また明日拝なびら (mata acha wuganabira) lit. let's meet again tomorrow (frm) 行会ー拝なびら ichee wuganabira - frm 行会ー拝ま (ichee wugama) - inf
Old English	God þē mid sīe (lit. "God be with you)
Oriya	ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaay)
Papiamento	Ajo / Te aworo / Te otro biaha
Pashto	(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان (makha de khah) مښه د ګلونه (makha de gulunah) مښه د ښه
Persian (Farsi)	(bedrood) بدرود (khoda hafez) خداحافظ
Polish	Do widzenia (frm) Do zobaczenia / Narazie / Cześć (inf)
Portuguese	Adeus, Tchau (Brazil)
Punjabi	ਰੱਬ ਰਾਖਾ / ربّ راکھا (rabb rākhā = "may God protect you") ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾਂਗੇ ست سری آکال فیر مِلاں گے ( sati sri akālfir milange)
Quechua	Tutañam, ripusaq (It is dark already, I'm going) Huq p'unchaykama (Until another day) Atispaykiqa, kutimuykuy (Come back if you can) Tinkunanchiskama (I'll see you later, farewell) Paqarinkama (Until tomorrow) Huq ratukama (See you later) Tupananchiskama (general) Tupananchikkama (Ayacuco) (till we meet again)
Romanian	La revedere
Romansh	Chau / Sin seveser / A revair / A pli tard
Russian	До свидания! (Do svidanija!) - frm Пока! (Poka!) - inf
Samoan	Tofa soifua
Sardinian (Logudorese)
Scottish Gaelic	Beannachd leat/leibh (frm) Mar sin leat/leibh (reply to beannachd leat) Tìoraidh / Tìoraidh ma-tha / Tìoraidh an-dràsta (inf) Bidh mi 'gad fhaicinn (I'll be seeing you) Chi mi a-rithist thu (I'll see you again) Feumaidh mi ruith (I must run)
Serbian	Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Sesotho	Sala hantle (to person staying) Tsamaya hantle (to person leaving)
Shona	Sara Zvakanaka (sg) Sariayi Zvakanaka (pl)
Sicilian	Addiu / Nni videmu / Salutamu / A biatu
Sinhala	ගිහිල්ලා එන්නම් (gihillā ennam) - when leaving හරි, ගිහින් එන්න (hari, gihin enna) - reply to above මම යනවා (mama yanawā) = 'I'm going' හා (hā) - reply to above
Slovak	Dovidenia (frm) Zbohom (frm) Čau (inf) Ahoj (inf)
Slovenian	Nasvidenje, Zbogom, Zdravo, Živijo, Adijo
Spanish	Adiós, Hasta luego, Hasta la vista, Hasta mañana
Sundanese	Abdi tipayun nya? (said by one leaving) Mangga (response) Wilujeng angkat / Dugi patepang deui Dugi kapendak deui
Swahili	Kwaheri
Swedish	Hej då
Swiss German	Uf Widerluege / Ciao / Tschüss / Bis spöter / Sali / Adieu
Tagalog	Paálam
Tahitian	Nana / Parahi / Araua'e
Tamil	போயிட்டு வரேன் (poittu varen) அப்புறம் பார்க்கலாமே (apram paarkalame)
Tatar	Saw bul(iğız) / Xuş(iğız) / Küreşkèngè tiklem
Telugu	వీడ్కోలు (veedkolu) ఇక సెలవు (ika selavu)
Tetum	Hau ba lai / Hepeye / Heppi / Adeus / Atelogu / Ate amanyá
Thai	ลาก่อนนะ (laa gòn ná)
Tibetan	ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe) - said by person leaving ག་ལེར་བཞུགས་། (kha-leh shu) - said by person staying ད་འགྲོ་རན་ཤག། (ta do-ran-sha) - it's time to go ང་ཚོ་སྐྱིད་པོ་བྱུང་། (nga-tso kyipo chung) - we had a good time སང་ཉིན་མཇལ་ཡོང་། (sânyi jay-yong) see you tomorrow རྗེས་མ་མཇལ་ཡོང་། (jema jay-yong) - see you later ཡང་སྐྱར་ཕེབས་རོགས་ཨ། (yâng-kya pheb-ro-ah)
Tigrinya	ሰላማት (selamat)
Tok Pisin	Gutbai / Lukim yu bihain (inf)
Tongan	‘Alu a (to sb going) Faka’au ā (to sb going - vfrm) Nofo ā (to sb staying) Toki sio (see you later - inf)
Tswana	Tsamaya sentle (Go well - said to the those leaving) Sala sentle (Stay well - said to the those staying) Go siame / Ke tla go bona (see you) Ke tla go bôna kamoso (see you tomorrow) Ke tla go bôna kgantele (see you later)
Turkish	Hoşça kal
Ukrainian	До побачення (Do pobačennja)
Urdu	(khuda hafiz) خدا حافظ
Uzbek	Hayirli tun
Venda	Sala kahle
Venetian	Adìo
Vietnamese	Chào anh (>m) Chào chị (>f) Tạm biệt
Welsh	Hwyl, Hwyl fawr, Hwyl nawr, Hwyl am y tro, Tara, Da boch chi
Wolof	Ba beneen / Mangi dem
Xhosa	Hamba kakuhle (go well) Sala kakuhle (stay well)
Yiddish	(Biz shpeter) שפּעטער ביז (Adie) אַדיע
Yapese	Kafel / Kefel / Taboch Gow
Yorùbá	O da abọ
Yucatec Maya	K'a'ak'ate / Taak saama (see you tomorrow) Taak ulak k'iin (see you later)
Zazaki	Xatır be to (inf) Xatır be şıma (frm)
Zulu	Sala kahle (sg) Salani kahle (pl) >people staying Hamba kahle (sg) Hambani kahle (pl) >people leaving Ube no hambo uluhle

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