Crossword clues for rubaiyat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rubaiyat \Ru*bai*yat"\, n. pl.; sing. Rubai. [Ar. rub[=a]'iy[=a]h quatrian, pl. of rub[=a]'iy having four radicals, fr. rub[=a]' four.] Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"quatrains" (in Persian poetry), 1859, plural of rubai, from Arabic rubaiyah, from rubaiy "composed of four elements."
Wikipedia
Rubaiyat may refer to:
- Ruba'iyat, a collection of Ruba'i (a form of Persian poetry). The best-known example of such a collection is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, to the extent that Rubaiyat is often used as a short name for this particular collection. There are also rubaiyats by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi . Among modern Iranian poets, the rubaiyat of Hossein Ghods-Nakhai have been translated into various languages.
- Rubayat, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province
- Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary, a 1990 compilation album released by Elektra Records
- Rubaiyat Haque (born 1987), Bangladeshi cricketer
Usage examples of "rubaiyat".
I am willing to wager that Omer Khayyam could never have written the Rubaiyat in the valley of Typee--it would have been psychologically impossible.
One caught his eye, a thin, leather-bound volume with bright gold lettering: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the English translation by Fitzgerald.
One was The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the other was a Bible, open at the second chapter of John.
There are a great many things which might be said against the spirit of the Rubaiyat, and against its prodigious influence.
With this old pagan eudaemonism the sage of the Rubaiyat has quite as little to do as he has with any Christian variety.
After a long stint as a motorcycle messenger he stumbled on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and thought it necessary to publish his own views.
Other artists in the high tides of history have had kindred qualities, but coming close to our day, Elihu Vedder, the American, the illustrator of the Rubaiyat, found it a poem questioning all things, and his very illustrations answer in a certain fashion with winds of infinity, and bring the songs of Omar near to the Book of Job.
It was to be something along the lines of the Rubaiyat, but without the gentle melancholy and bitter undertone of that hedonistic masterwork.
The book was one of those ghastly great illustrated editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which, one had hoped, had passed out of popularity long ago.