Riyadh

English

Alternative forms

• Riad (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الرِّيَاض (ar-riyāḍ, literally “the meadows”), from رَوْض (rawḍ, “meadow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈriː.æd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈjɑːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Proper noun

Riyadh

2. 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.

4. A province of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
6. (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 (Är-Reyad)
• 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), रियाज़ m (riyāz)
• Hungarian: Rijád (hu)
• Icelandic: Ríad
• Ido: Riad
• Indonesian: Riyadh
• Irish: Riad
• Italian: Riad f
• Japanese: リヤド (ja) (Riyado)
• Kazakh: Эр-Рияд (Èr-Rıyad)
• 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