What does the name Omar Khayyam mean?

Answer

A Persian poet, 1048-1131, most famous for his 'Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam', a book of quatrains - rubiyat means quatrain, or poetic stanzas of 4 lines. This beautiful book has been translated and published into many languages, including, English (a famous 1859 translation by a Thomas Fitzgerald is one respected version in English), German, Italian, and French.

He was an astronomer also.