Rubaiyat is a noun referring to a collection of quatrains, most famously the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It designates poetic works composed in four-line stanzas and is often invoked in literary contexts or discussions of Persian poetry and transliterated titles. The term also appears in scholarly and bibliographic usage to denote such a collection. The pronunciation centers on a Persian-origin title anglicized through literary usage.
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