English
Etymology
From Arabic الرِّيَاض (ar-riyāḍ, literally “the meadows”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹiˈjɑːd/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈriːæd/
- Rhymes: -ɑːd
Proper noun
Riyadh
- A province of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
- 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.
- (metonymic) the government of Saudi Arabia
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 (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)
- Navajo: Wiyáád
- 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
- Roman: 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-Riyad)
- 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)
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Anagrams
Portuguese
Proper noun
Riyadh ?
- alternative form of Riade