Omar Khayyám

American

[oh-mahr kahy-yahm, -yam, oh-mer] / ˈoʊ mɑr kaɪˈyɑm, -ˈyæm, ˈoʊ mər /

noun

died 1123?, Persian poet and mathematician.

Omar Khayyám British

/ 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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Omar Khayyam Cultural

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

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To a devoted friend, such as Edward FitzGerald, the translator of the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám,” who supported him for years, Tennyson could be rude, cold and ungrateful.

From The Wall Street Journal

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and W.B.

From The Wall Street Journal

He keeps a two-room Soviet-era studio off Dushanbe’s Omar Khayyam Street, where skyscrapers look down on the intimate gardens and walled labyrinths of a mahalla.

From New York Times

That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran.

From Seattle Times

The satellite was named after Omar Khayyam, a renowned Persian scientist and poet.

From New York Times

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