Rubaiyat /(?)/

Ru·bai·yat

Rubaiyat

n. pl.

[Ar. rubā'iyāh quatrian, pl. of rubā'iy having four radicals, fr. rubā' four.]

Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.

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