köken: Contraction of خدا حافظت باشد (xudā hāfizat bāšad, “may God be your protector”) from Classical Persian. Gradually shortened to خداحافظت (xudāhāfizat) or (xodâhâfezet), to خداحافظ (xudāhāfiz) or (xodâhâfez), and colloquially to خدافظ (xudāfiz) or (xodâfez)
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Compare Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, and Spanish adiós, Catalan adeu, Dutch ajuus, English, French, and Occitan adieu, German tschüss, Greek αντίο (antío), Galician adeus, Italian addio, Maltese addiju, Mirandese adius, Romanian adio, Serbo-Croatian ади̏о/adȉo, Slovene adȋjo.
alternative form of さようなら (sayōnara, “so long; goodbye; farewell”)
çekim: geçmiş さよならした
köken: Shortening of さようなら (sayōnara). First attested in 1770 as a conjunction and interjection, with the farewell noun sense attested from 1924, and the verb sense from roughly 1937.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian اَلوِدَاع (alwidā'), an unadapted borrowing from Arabic الوَدَاع (al-wadāʕ), whence also विदा (vidā, “departure”). Cognate with Turkish elveda.
exemption, permission · farewell · indulgence (a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution)
çekim: çoğul búcsúk
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“empty, free”). Its meaning developed from the original “exemption” in two ways: * permission to leave → bidding farewell → farewell, and * absolution, remission → pilgrimage for this goal → commemoration → the feast on this occasion.