Omar Khayyám

[ oh-mahr kahy-yahm, -yam, oh-mer ]

noun

1. died 1123?, Persian poet and mathematician.

Omar Khayyám

/ ˈəʊmɑː kaɪˈɑːm /

noun

1. Omar Khayyám?1050?1123MPersianWRITING: poetSCIENCE: mathematicianSCIENCE: astronomer ?1050–?1123, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubáiyát, a collection of quatrains, popularized in the West by Edward Fitzgerald's version (1859)

Omar Khayyam

1. A twelfth-century Persian poet; author of the “ Rubáiyát .”

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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Rightly read Omar Khayyam's lesson is serenity and poise and that power and happiness which come from these.

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