Crossword-Solution: RUBA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The Persian name for amber is KAHRUBA, attractor of straws, and that for lodestone AHANG-RUBA attractor of iron.

The smallest kind is called "Ruba Aj"(Quarter Ivory), the better description "Nuss Aj"(Half Ivory), whilst" Aj," the best kind, fetches from thirty-two to forty dollars per Farasilah of 27 Arab pounds.

Don't you remember how I repeated",-- _"'Questo domanda del pan; Questo dise, no ghe n'e; Questo dise come faremo; Quell' altro dise; rubaremo; Il mignolo dise; chi ruba 'mpicca, 'mpicca!_'" It was a folk rhyme she had taught him to say, telling off his chubby fingers one by one; and she remembered how proud the boy had been when he had repeated it to his father.

There are _Briscola_, _Tresette_, _Calabresella_, _Banco-Fallito_, _Rossa e Nera_, _Scaraccoccia_, _Scopa_, _Spizzica_, _Faraone_, _Zecchinetto_, _Mercante in Fiera_, _La Bazzica_, _Ruba-Monte_, _Uomo-Nero_, _La Paura_, and I know not how many others,--but they are recorded and explained in no book, and are only to be picked up orally.

Garcin de Tassy scrupulously observed this injunction in his Note sur les Ruba'iyat de Omar Khaiyam, which appeared in the journal Asiatique.