diriyah

/D IH1 R AH0 Y AH0/
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    DiriyahProperly Al-Dirʻiyyah following the Romanization of Arabic, but also written as "Al-Diriyah", "Ad-Diriyah", "Ad-Dir'iyah", "Ad-Dar'iyah", or "Dir'aiyah" (ad-Dir‘īyah, approximate meaning ‘place of armor’Hans Wehr (edited by J. Milton Cowan): A dictionary of modern written Arabic, ed. 3, Ithaca, N.Y., 1971, Spoken Language Services, Inc.), formerly romanized as Dereyeh" and Dariyya, is a town and governorate in Saudi Arabia.