Omar Khayyám
[ oh-mahr kahy-yahm, -yam, oh-mer ]
/ ˈoʊ mɑr kaɪˈyɑm, -ˈyæm, ˈoʊ mər /
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noun
died 1123?, Persian poet and mathematician.
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Omar Khayyám
/ (ˈəʊmɑː kaɪˈɑːm) /
noun
?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)
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Cultural definitions for Omar Khayyám
Omar Khayyam
[ (oh-mahr keye-ahm, keye-am) ]
A twelfth-century Persian poet; author of the “Rubáiyát.”
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