Rubaiyat

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]