different between poetry vs rubai

English

Alternative forms

• poëtry (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin po?tria, from po?ta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (poi?t?s, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English l?oþcræft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?i/, [?p????t??]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po??t?i/, [?p?o??.?t??i]
• Hyphenation: po?et?ry

Noun

poetry (usually uncountable, plural poetries)

1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.

   Synonyms: (archaic) poesy, verse

   Antonym: prose

2. A poet's literary production.
3. (figuratively) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:poetry.

Derived terms

• poetry in motion

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Proyet, Torpey, tropey

English

Alternative forms

• ruba'i

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????????? (rub??iyy), from ?????????? (?arba?a, “four”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?u??b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?u?ba?/

Noun

rubai (plural rubaiyat or rubais)

1. (poetry) A quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry.

Anagrams

• Aubri

Italian

Verb

rubai

1. first-person singular past historic of rubare

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?uvi/

Etymology 1

Verb

·rubai

1. third-person singular habitual present indicative ro-form prototonic of at·tá

Etymology 2

Verb

·rubai

1. inflection of benaid:
   1. third-person singular perfect prototonic
   2. second-person singular present subjunctive prototonic ro-form

Mutation

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????????? (rub??iyy), from ?????????? (?arba?a)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??b???i?]
• Hyphenation: ru?ba?i

Noun

rubai (definite accusative rubaiyi, plural rubailer)

1. rubai; quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry

Declension