Omar Khayyám

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ō′mär kī yäm′, -yam′, ō′mər)


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O•mar Khay•yám  (ō′mär kī yäm′, -yam′, ō′mər),USA pronunciation 
  1. Biographicaldied 1123?, Persian poet and mathematician.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Omar Khayyám / ˈəʊmɑː kaɪˈɑːm/
  1. ?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)
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Khay•yám  (kī yäm′, -yam′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Omar. See Omar Khayyám. 

'Omar Khayyám' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Fitzgerald - Khayyám - Nishapur - Rubaiyat stanza - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The

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