rubain.

Brit.

/ruːˈbʌɪ/, U.S.

/ruˈbaɪ/

Inflections: Plural rubaiyat Brit.

/ˈruːbʌɪ(j)at/,

/ruːˈbʌɪ(j)at/, U.S.

/ˈrubiˌ(j)ɑt/,

/ˈruˌbaɪˌ(j)ɑt/, rubais.

Forms: 1700s– rubai, 1800s rubai'y, 1800s– ruba'i, 1900s– ruba'iy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Partly a borrowing from Arabic. Etymons: Persian rubāʿī; Arabic rubāʿī.

Etymology: < Persian rubāʿī and its etymon Arabic rubāʿī tetrastich, quatrain, use as noun of rubāʿī consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold, quadruple < rubāʿ four at a time (compare rubʿ quarter (see arroba n.), arbaʿa four) + -ī -i suffix².In plural form rubaiyat after Persian rubāʿiyyāt ( < Arabic rubāʿiyyāt, plural of rubāʿī), the title of the most famous collection of Persian quatrains, attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyám (1048–1131).

In Persian poetry: a quatrain.The term became widely known in English in the plural form through the publication of Edward FitzGerald's translation, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (see quot. 1859). See also Omarian n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > other quatrains

quartet1605

englyn1612

Alcaic1630

redondilla1703

rubai1789

1789 New Asiatic Misc. 19 To these tetrasticks they in the beginning gave the name of..Do Bytee, which in a short time..was laid aside in favour of the term..Rúbai.

1826 J. Leyden & W. Erskine tr. Babur Memoirs 102 I presented my rubâi..to the Khan.

1837 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 5 117 Sahibi is celebrated for the beauty of his Rubaiyàt. A Rubài resembles in rhyme the four first misras of the Ghazal; and is generally written in the same measure.

1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát 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.

1885 Encycl. 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 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Sept. 641/2 The four main types of Persian poetical composition are still..the qasida, the ghazal, the masṅavi and the ruba‘iy.

1959 Chambers'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.

1996 D. Alexander Creating Lit. out of Life iii. 66 The scribes organized their collections of rubáiyát by alphabetizing each rubái according to its rhyme word.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rubai
释义	rubain. Brit. /ruːˈbʌɪ/, U.S. /ruˈbaɪ/ Inflections: Plural rubaiyat Brit. /ˈruːbʌɪ(j)at/, /ruːˈbʌɪ(j)at/, U.S. /ˈrubiˌ(j)ɑt/, /ˈruˌbaɪˌ(j)ɑt/, rubais. Forms: 1700s– rubai, 1800s rubai'y, 1800s– ruba'i, 1900s– ruba'iy. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Partly a borrowing from Arabic. Etymons: Persian rubāʿī; Arabic rubāʿī. Etymology: < Persian rubāʿī and its etymon Arabic rubāʿī tetrastich, quatrain, use as noun of rubāʿī consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold, quadruple < rubāʿ four at a time (compare rubʿ quarter (see arroba n.), arbaʿa four) + -ī -i suffix².In plural form rubaiyat after Persian rubāʿiyyāt ( < Arabic rubāʿiyyāt, plural of rubāʿī), the title of the most famous collection of Persian quatrains, attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyám (1048–1131). In Persian poetry: a quatrain.The term became widely known in English in the plural form through the publication of Edward FitzGerald's translation, the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (see quot. 1859). See also Omarian n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > other quatrains quartet1605 englyn1612 Alcaic1630 redondilla1703 rubai1789 1789 New Asiatic Misc. 19 To these tetrasticks they in the beginning gave the name of..Do Bytee, which in a short time..was laid aside in favour of the term..Rúbai. 1826 J. Leyden & W. Erskine tr. Babur Memoirs 102 I presented my rubâi..to the Khan. 1837 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 5 117 Sahibi is celebrated for the beauty of his Rubaiyàt. A Rubài resembles in rhyme the four first misras of the Ghazal; and is generally written in the same measure. 1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát 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. 1885 Encycl. 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 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Sept. 641/2 The four main types of Persian poetical composition are still..the qasida, the ghazal, the masṅavi and the ruba‘iy. 1959 Chambers'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. 1996 D. Alexander Creating Lit. out of Life iii. 66 The scribes organized their collections of rubáiyát by alphabetizing each rubái according to its rhyme word. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789
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