Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The

[ roo-bahy-yaht, -bee- ]

noun

1. a free translation (first published in 1859) by Edward FitzGerald of a group of quatrains by the Persian poet Omar Khayyám.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The¹

Rubáiyát < Persian < Arabic, feminine plural of rubāʿī quatrain

Example Sentences

He hated the Omar Khayyám brigade – you know the rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the popular Persian poem translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

From Salon

General recognition came to him in 1884, when he published his illustrations to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam—the most sympatheticpage 112 and beautiful pictorial comment which has ever been given any book of poetry.

From Project Gutenberg

One was The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the other was a Bible, open at the second chapter of John.

From Project Gutenberg