Ru|bái|yát

Ru|bái|yát
Ru|bái|yát «ROO by yaht, -bee-», noun (plural).
a collection of poems in quatrains written in Persia in the 1100's by Omar Khayyám, translated into English and edited and arranged as a sequential poem by Edward FitzGerald, that was published in 1859.
[< Arabic rubā'iyāt, feminine plural of rubā'īya quatrain < rubā'i ruba'i]

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