Arabic · noun · Poetry, Speech & Art

Rubai

रुबाई

said ru-baa-EE

also written: Rubaee,Ruba'i,Rubayi

Meaning

A quatrain — a self-contained four-line poem in a fixed metre, usually rhyming AABA, often epigrammatic or philosophical.

Literally: composed of four

Related words

A short poem or fragment of consecutively rhymed couplets on a single idea.

A two-couplet (four-line) poem in a metre distinct from the rubai; a quatrain of the song tradition.

A couplet — the basic complete unit of Urdu and Persian poetry, made of two misra.