How to write an Arabic amount in words (تفقيط) with the right grammar

The riyal is masculine. هللة is feminine. The page closes with فقط لا غير unless you uncheck it. That closing is the usual formula meaning the amount is exact and not a prefix someone could extend.

• 1 is ريال سعودي واحد فقط لا غير.
• 2 is ريالان سعوديان فقط لا غير. The dual noun does the work. There is no separate اثنان.
• 3 is ثلاثة ريالات سعودية فقط لا غير. From 3 to 10 the noun is plural, and a non-human plural takes a feminine singular adjective, so سعودية.
• 11 is أحد عشر ريالًا سعوديًا فقط لا غير. From 11 to 99 the noun is singular and accusative, which is why the tanween is written: ريالًا.
• 100 is مائة ريال سعودي فقط لا غير. Hundreds and thousands take the singular noun, without tanween.
• 200 is مائتا ريال سعودي فقط لا غير. The dual of مائة drops its nūn because the noun follows immediately.
• 2000 is ألفا ريال سعودي فقط لا غير, for the same reason.
• 1500.50 is ألف وخمسمائة ريال سعودي وخمسون هللةً فقط لا غير. The halalas are feminine and, because 50 is between 11 and 99, هللةً carries tanween.

A longer one, so you can see the joins: 1,234,567.89 is مليون ومائتان وأربعة وثلاثون ألفًا وخمسمائة وسبعة وستون ريالًا سعوديًا وتسع وثمانون هللةً فقط لا غير. The word ألفًا has tanween because more of the number follows it. When the thousands stand directly before the currency, the tanween is dropped: 11,000 is أحد عشر ألف ريال سعودي فقط لا غير.

The Egyptian pound follows the same masculine pattern: جنيه مصري واحد, جنيهان مصريان, ثلاثة جنيهات مصرية, أحد عشر جنيهًا مصريًا, مائة جنيه مصري. The minor unit is the piastre, قرش, which is masculine: 0.50 pounds is خمسون قرشًا فقط لا غير, and 1.01 is جنيه مصري واحد وقرش واحد فقط لا غير. An amount under one does not pretend there is a pound. It names the piastres only.

The UAE dirham uses فلس for the fraction: 1,500.50 dirhams is ألف وخمسمائة درهم إماراتي وخمسون فلسًا فقط لا غير. From 3 to 10 the plural of fils on this page is فلوس, so five fils is خمسة فلوس. Kuwaiti dinars, Bahraini dinars, and Jordanian dinars also use fils, and they use three digits after the decimal, not two. 1.234 Kuwaiti dinars is دينار كويتي واحد ومائتان وأربعة وثلاثون فلسًا فقط لا غير. 1.500 Bahraini dinars is دينار بحريني واحد وخمسمائة فلس فقط لا غير. The Omani rial’s minor unit is بيسة, which is feminine, so 1.500 is ريال عماني واحد وخمسمائة بيسة فقط لا غير, with no tanween on a round five hundred.

Eight is the feminine form people most often get wrong. Eight halalas is ثماني هللات, not ثمان هللات and not ثمانية هللات. Eighteen is ثماني عشرة هللةً. Two halalas is the dual هللتان. Eleven is إحدى عشرة هللةً.

You can type the amount with Western digits or Arabic-Indic digits. ١٥٠٠٫٥٠ is the same as 1500.50. The Arabic decimal separator ٫ is a dot. A comma in 1,500.50 is a thousands separator. A single comma in 1,50 is treated as a decimal point, because that is how some keyboards write a fraction. The box under the result is a different tool in the same page: it converts digits inside a sentence and leaves the words. To Arabic digits turns 2026 into ٢٠٢٦. To Western digits turns ٢٠٢٦ or ۲۰۲۶ back into 2026. It does not translate words, and it does not spell an amount. If you only needed a count of the words in the line you copied, paste the line into Word Counter.

Up to 15 digits before the decimal point. A negative amount is refused. “No currency” spells an integer in the masculine and refuses a fraction, because there is no قرش or هللة to attach it to. Extra decimal places round half up. 1.995 Egyptian pounds becomes 2 pounds, and the words become the dual, جنيهان مصريان فقط لا غير. If you did not want rounding, type the amount already rounded to the currency’s places: two for the pound and the riyal, three for the Kuwaiti dinar.

The page uses مائة rather than مئة, and it writes accusative tanween on the noun. Both are choices a reader can see. A tool that omits tanween can still be grammatical in unvocalised text, and it is harder to check. Read the line anyway. The tool spells what you typed. It does not know that you swapped the riyals and the halalas. It is not a review of the contract.

Currencies on the page are the Egyptian pound, Saudi riyal, UAE dirham, Kuwaiti dinar, Qatari riyal, Bahraini dinar, Omani rial, Jordanian dinar, Moroccan dirham, US dollar, euro, and pound sterling. The dollar’s fraction is سنت. The sterling fraction is بنس. The euro is treated as يورو, with يوروان for two and يوروهات from three to ten, and no extra nationality adjective, because “يورو أوروبي” does not earn its place on a cheque.

Spelling runs in the browser. The amount is not uploaded. A cheque amount is still not something to leave sitting in a shared screenshot of the page. Copy it into the document and clear the box if other people use the computer. The site’s analytics, described in the Privacy Policy, can see that the tool was opened and cannot see the number. The same boundary is discussed in privacy with online file tools.

Why is 101 “مائة وواحد جنيه” and not “مائة وجنيه واحد”?

For 101 and 102 the number words keep واحد or اثنان, and the noun stays singular. The “جنيه واحد” word order is reserved for the amount that is exactly one. 102 is مائة واثنان جنيه مصري فقط لا غير.

Can I drop فقط لا غير?

Yes. Uncheck it. The grammar of the amount does not change. The closing is convention, not part of the number.

Is this valid for every Arab country?

The grammar is standard formal Arabic. The currency names and the number of decimal places follow the currencies listed above. A local template may prefer a different minor-unit name or may omit tanween. Compare one line with a cheque your bank has accepted before you print a book of them.

Does it write fusha or colloquial?

Formal Arabic, the register of documents. It will not produce Egyptian colloquial “جنيه” with a spoken number. That is a different sentence from the one a contract uses.

Open Arabic Numbers, type the amount you will actually put on the document, and read the line once aloud before you copy it.