rubai

See also: ruba'i

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُبَاعِيّ‎ (rubāʿiyy), from أَرْبَعَة‎ (ʾarbaʿa, “four”)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹuːˈbʌɪ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹuˈbaɪ/

Noun

rubai (plural rubaiyat or rubais)

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

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

rubai

  1. first-person singular past historic of rubare

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈr͈uvi/

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Verb

·rubai

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

Etymology 2

Verb

·rubai

  1. third-person singular perfect prototonic of benaid
  2. second-person singular present subjunctive prototonic ro-form of benaid
  • ro·bí (deuterotonic of the third-person singular perfect)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·rubai
also ·rrubai		 ·rubai
pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/ 		·rubai
also ·rrubai
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic رُبَاعِيّ‎ (rubāʿiyy), from أَرْبَعَة‎ (ʾarbaʿa)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɾʋbɑːˈiː]
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ba‧i

Noun

rubai (definite accusative rubaiyi, plural rubailer)

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

Declension

Inflection
Nominative rubai
Definite accusative rubaiyi
Singular Plural
Nominative rubai rubailer
Definite accusative rubaiyi rubaileri
Dative rubaiye rubailere
Locative rubaide rubailerde
Ablative rubaiden rubailerden
Genitive rubainin rubailerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular rubaim rubailerim
2nd singular rubain rubailerin
3rd singular rubaisi rubaileri
1st plural rubaimiz rubailerimiz
2nd plural rubainiz rubaileriniz
3rd plural rubaileri rubaileri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular rubaiyim rubailerim
2nd singular rubaisin rubailersin
3rd singular rubai
rubaidir		 rubailer
rubailerdir
1st plural rubaiyiz rubaileriz
2nd plural rubaisiniz rubailersiniz
3rd plural rubailer rubailerdir
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