Etymology

sayonara

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Today it means: Goodbye, adios, adieu. Full definition →

Japanese さようなら
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromさようなら“farewell”
  2. English todaysayonara

Borrowed from Japanese さようなら (sayōnara, “farewell”, literally “if that's the way it is”) or its shorter, less traditional form さよなら (sayonara).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.