rubaiyat

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ru·bai·yat

R5360450 (ro͞o′bē-ät′, -bī-)n. pl. rubaiyat or ru·bai·yats A traditional Persian verse form consisting of a collection of quatrains, typically rhyming aaba.
[From Persian rubā'iyyāt, Arabizing pl. of rubā'ī, quatrain, from Arabic, fourfold, quatrain, from Arabic rubā', by fours, four by four; see rbʕ in Semitic roots.]

rubáiyát

(ˈruːbaɪˌjæt) n (Poetry) prosody (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas[C19: from Arabic rubā'īyah, from rubā'īy consisting of four elements]