'Rubaiyat' definitions:

Definition of 'Rubaiyat'

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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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]