Omar Khayyám

American  

[oh-mahr kahy-yahm, -yam, oh-mer] / ˈoʊ mɑr kaɪˈyɑm, -ˈyæm, ˈoʊ mər /

noun

1. died 1123?, Persian poet and mathematician.

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Omar Khayyám British  

/ ˈəʊmɑː kaɪˈɑːm /

noun

1. ?1050–?1123, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubáiyát, a collection of quatrains, popularized in the West by Edward Fitzgerald's version (1859)

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Omar Khayyam Cultural  

1. A twelfth-century Persian poet; author of the “Rubáiyát.”

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Example Sentences

Months later, after news reports about the case emerged, a man gave the police a poetry book, “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam,” that he said he had found in his car with its last page torn out.

From New York Times

The “moving fingers” image is tactfully tactile, and, again, sexuality seems to evoke mortality, with a reminder of Omar Khayyam’s “The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, / Moves on”.

From The Guardian

He has been reading the work of Persian poets like Omar Khayyam and Hafiz, who wrote, among other things, “If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.”

From New York Times

The recipes are by the Armenian-American chef George Mardikian, who started his famous San Francisco restaurant, Omar Khayyam’s, during another crisis: the Great Depression.

From New York Times

Long before that my mother used to read me The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám on the back verandah of our house in Kogarah.

From The Guardian