Khayyám

[ kahy-yahm, -yam ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Khayyám

/ kaɪˈɑːm /

Referring to life, Omar Khayyam was accurate enough about the moving finger writing, and having writ, moving on.

On the table were dirty teacups, a flat chocolate cake, and Omar Khayyam, with an Oswego biscuit between his pages.

Almost immediately he replied to her from Nottingham, sending her at the same time a little "Omar Khayyam."

I felt greatly encouraged with Khayyam,--pronounced Ki-yam,--which had the K sound, and in form had the h.

This is sufficiently proved from his large work—the illustrations to the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."

Those whom the cult of sensual desires has overcome follow Horace and Omar Khayyam.

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