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‖ ruba‘i|ruˈbɑːiː|
Also ruba‘iy. Pl. rubaiyat |ˈruːbaɪ(j)æt, ˈruːbeɪ(j)æt|.
[Arabic rubā‘īyah, f. rubā‘īy composed of four elements.]
In Persian poetry, a quatrain.
The pl. is chiefly familiar in the title of the work by Omar Khayyam (cf. Omarian a. and n.), known to English speakers esp. in FitzGerald's version.
1859E. FitzGerald Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám p. xii, The original Rubáiyát (as, missing an Arabic Guttural, these Tetrastichs are more musically called), are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of equal, though varied, Prosody; sometimes all rhyming, but oftener (as here attempted) the third line suspending the Cadence by which the last atones with the former Two. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 656/1 Those principal forms of poetry now used in common by all Mohammedan nations—the forms of..the rubá‘í or quatrain (our epigram, for which the Persians invented a new metre in addition to those adopted from the Arabs), [etc.]. 1934[see qasida]. 1959Chambers's Encycl. X. 202/1 Omar Khayyam.., Persian poet and master of the ruba‘i (quatrain)... The Rubaiyat have now been translated into almost all the literary languages of the world. |