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ruba'i

ruba'i is the alternative spelling of rubai.

Meaning of rubai

Noun

rubai (plural rubaiyat or rubais)

  1. A quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry.

Forms of ruba'i

pluralruba'iyat
pluralruba'is

Questions about ruba'i

What is ruba'i the alternative spelling of?
Ruba'i is the alternative spelling of rubai.

Words near ruba'i in the dictionary

  1. rub-offs
  2. rub-out
  3. rub-outs
  4. rub-up
  5. rub-ups
  6. ruba'i
  7. ruba'is
  8. ruba'iyat
  9. rubab
  10. rubaboo
  11. rubabs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruba'i (page history and authors); rubai (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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