Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 76.

Hello and welcome to Less 76 of Learn Persian with Chying Conversation.

This is the last discussion of the poem we are calling Khosh-bush by Omar Khayyam.

So first, let's listen to my father reciting the full poem with his amazing voice.

Chayam, if Zabademadhi, chishabash.

Ba ma, Ruchy, if you're nothast thee, ch'nach.

Chon, the abet of the car of jan-nhani ist, engar, that nishti,

Joh asti chishpaw.

Let's begin today's discussion with the word rubaiyat.

The book of poetry of Chayam was referred to as rubaiyatheiata.

So this word ruballiat refers to the type of poetry Chayam says, and that is a quayyote Chayom. So this word Rubayat refers to the type of poetry

Chayom says, and that is a quatrain. So Rubayat refers to a four-line, Persian quatrain,

and it has either the rhyme scheme A-A-B-A or A-A-A-A-A-A-A. And a lot of poetry,

Persian poetry is written in this form, including a lot of Rumi's poetry,

but it was also imported into the West, largely in part with Edward Fitzgerald's translations of Omer

Chayom's work. And so it's a popular form here as well. So again that word is ruballiot.

And you can see this poem has a very simple ABA form. So the first, second and fourth lines end with the mantra

hoshbash, which of course rhyme, and only the third line is different from that.

So since this poem is simple enough, let's just continue learning the vocabulary and phrases

in order. So let's learn the third line. First, let's listen to my father reading the third line of the poem.

I want to start this discussion with talking about the concept of Nisti.

Nisti is the opposite of Hasti, and let's begin with that one.

...