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Noun: Omar Khayyam  'ow-maa(r) kI'yaam
  1. Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)

Type of: astronomer, mathematician, poet, stargazer [informal], uranologist

Encyclopedia: Omar Khayyam