Riyadh

English

Etymology

From Arabic الرِّيَاض (ar-riyāḍ, literally “the meadows”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈjɑːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈriːæd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Proper noun

Riyadh

2. A province of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
4. The capital city of Saudi Arabia.
   • 2025 May 27, Thomas Carothers, “A new low on US democracy support”, in POLITICO‎^[1]:

     U.S. President Donald Trump delighted his Saudi hosts in Riyadh on May 13, telling them America wouldn’t be giving “lectures on how to live” under his watch.

5. (metonymic) The government of Saudi Arabia.
   • 2024 May 17, Alex Lawson, “‘Art-washing’? Unease as British cultural institutions lend lustre to Saudi trade push”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Notable in the delegation was a significant contingent of cultural bodies, a move which immediately drew criticism that the Gulf state was “art-washing” – using Britain’s venerable institutions to improve its international image even as concerns over Riyadh’s human rights record continue to mount.

Translations

capital of Saudi Arabia

• Afrikaans: Riaad
• Albanian: Riadi m
• Amharic: ሪያድ (riyad)
• Arabic: الرِّيَاض (ar) f (ar-riyāḍ)
• Armenian: Էր Ռիադ (Ēr Ṙiad)
• Asturian: Riyad (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Ər-Riyad
• Bashkir: Әр-Рияд (Ər-Riyad)
• Basque: Riad (eu)
• Belarusian: Эр-Рыя́д m (Er-Ryjád)
• Bengali: রিয়াদ (bn) (riẏad)
• Bulgarian: Рия́д m (Rijád)
• Burmese: ရီယာ့ဒ်မြို့ (riyad.mrui.)
• Catalan: Riad
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 利雅得 (lei⁶ ngaa⁵ dak¹)

  Mandarin: 利雅得 (zh) (Lìyǎdé)

• Czech: Rijád (cs) m
• Danish: Riyadh n
• Dutch: Riyad n
• Esperanto: Riado (eo)
• Finnish: Riad (fi)
• French: Riyad (fr) m, Riad (fr) m
• Galician: Riad (gl) f
• Georgian: ერ-რიადი (ka) (er-riadi)
• German: Riad (de) n
• Greek: Ριάντ (el) n (Riánt)
• Hebrew: רִיַאד f (riyad)
• Hindi: रियाद m (riyād)
• Hungarian: Rijád (hu)
• Icelandic: Ríad
• Ido: Riad
• Indonesian: Riyadh
• Irish: Riad
• Italian: Riad f
• Japanese: リヤド (ja) (Riyado)
• Kazakh: Эр-Рияд (Ér-Riäd)
• Khmer: រីយ៉ាដ (km) (riiyaat)
• Korean: 리야드 (Riyadeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Riyad (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Эр-Рияд (Er-Riyad)
• Latvian: Rijāda f
• Lithuanian: Rijadas m
• Macedonian: Ријад m (Rijad)
• Malay: Riyadh
• Marathi: रियाद (riyād)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Эр-Рияд (Er-Rijad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Riyadh n

  Nynorsk: Riyadh n

• Pashto: رياض m (riyāz)
• Persian: ریاض (fa) (riyâz)
• Polish: Rijad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Riade (pt)
• Romanian: Riad m
• Russian: Эр-Рия́д (ru) m (Er-Rijád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ријад m

  Latin: Rijad (sh) m

• Slovak: Rijád m
• Slovene: Riad m
• Spanish: Riad (es) m
• Swedish: Riyadh (sv) n
• Tajik: Эр-Рияд (tg) (Er-Riyad), Ар-Риёз (Ar-Riyoz), Риёз (Riyoz)
• Tamil: ரியாத் (riyāt)
• Tatar: Әр-Рияд (Är-Riyäd)
• Thai: ริยาด
• Tibetan: རིས་ཡག (ris yag)
• Turkish: Riyad (tr)
• Turkmen: Er-Riýad
• Ukrainian: Ер-Рія́д m (Er-Rijád)
• Urdu: ریاض m (riyāz)
• Uyghur: رىياد (riyad)
• Uzbek: Ar-Riyod
• Vietnamese: E-ri-át, Ri-i-át
• Yiddish: ריאַד n (ryad)

Anagrams

• hydria

Portuguese

Proper noun

Riyadh ?

1. alternative form of Riade