Marrakech or Marrakesh? Riad, Ryad, Riyad or Riyadh?The city is spelled "Marrakech" in French and commonly use by foreigners except English thats will say 'Marrakesh' and Germans say "Marrakesch". Riad sometimes written Ryad Riyad or Riyadh literally means garden, and describes traditional and wonderfully atmospheric Medina houses that open inward to a garden courtyard lending themselves to sensitive conversion to intimate and individual guest house or hotel accommodation.