What is the origin of the expression "tarah" as in goodbye?

Question

My mother in law says it about 14 times at the end of a phone call

Answer 1

Terah is also a place where the Israelites stopped on the Exodus.


Terah or Térach (תֶּרַח / תָּרַח "Wanderer; loiterer", Standard Modern Hebrew Téraḥ / Táraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Téraḥ / Tāraḥ)

Answer 2

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Irish goodbye is a slang term with its origins in the Irish-American neighborhoods of New York City and Boston. The term refers to the practice of inconspicuously leaving a place where one has gathered with friends (usually for quite some time) without ever formally announcing that one is leaving. Note that an Irish goodbye requires a conscious decision by the person to leave without bidding adieu. It is a decision undertaken not for any emotional reasons, but solely as a matter of convenience. The Irish goodbye allows a person to disappear from a function with the utmost expediency without spending extra time on "thank-yous" etc.

Answer 3

Tarah Stopping; station, an encampment of the Hebrews in the wilderness (Num 33:27, Num 33:28).

Answer 4

It's a shortened version of 'tarah ra bumdeeay' a song which repeated the words over and over again during WW2. 'Tarah Well' is Welsh English [Wanglish] for 'cheerio'

Answer 5

What a pile of rubbish answers, apart from Euphojim's!

Yes, it is a dialect pronunciation of "ta-ta", but centred on Liverpool rather than the whole North of England.

Answer 6

Ta Rah

Answer 7

"Ta-ra" is how northerners pronounce "Ta-ta" meaning goodbye, which is used all over England; the Oxford English Dictionary says this is "a nursery version of 'goodbye' used playfully by adults" and gives the first sighting of it in 1837.

Answer 8

It is an expression of thanks to the great Egyptian Sun God Re or Ra.

Originally it was traditional to say something like "Thanks be to the great Sun God Ra who has let me see the light of your countenance once more". Eventually this became shortened to "Thanks Ra" or "Ta Ra" and finally to "tarah".

Answer 9

good question.....I love tarah though, and ta ta......rarely use them but they make me smile and think of all the wonderful people I used to know in England....

Answer 10

i had a dog called tara-when i left the house i used to say'tara'