Rubaiyat may refer to: 1  Ruba'iyat, a collection of Ruba'i (a form of Persian poetry). 2  The best-known example of such a collection is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, to the extent that Rubaiyat is often used as a short name for this particular collection.3  There are also rubaiyats by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi. Ruba'iyat, a collection of Ruba'i (a form of Persian poetry). 2  The best-known example of such a collection is the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, to the extent that Rubaiyat is often used as a short name for this particular collection.
Noun. 1. punctuation mark-the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases. punctuation. orthography, writing system-a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols.
Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron. adjective. 2. diacritical.