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rubaiyat

UK/ˈɹuːbʌɪ(j)at/US/ˈɹubiˌ(j)ɑt/

rubaiyat is the plural of rubai.

Meaning of rubai

Noun

rubai (plural rubaiyat or rubais)

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

Origin of rubaiyat

From Arabic رُبَاعِيَّات (rubāʕiyyāt), plural of رُبَاعِيّ (rubāʕiyy).

Questions about rubaiyat

What is rubaiyat the plural of?
Rubaiyat is the plural of rubai.
How do you pronounce rubaiyat?
Rubaiyat is pronounced /ˈɹuːbʌɪ(j)at/ (UK).

Words near rubaiyat in the dictionary

  1. rubace
  2. rubadub
  3. rubadubs
  4. rubai
  5. rubais
  6. rubaiyat
  7. Rubalcaba
  8. Rubalcabas
  9. Rubalcava
  10. Rubalcavas
  11. ruban

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubaiyat (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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