Arabic Currency in Words

Money amounts, written out the Arabic way

Invoices, contracts, and cheques in the Arab world write the amount in words as well as figures, and getting the grammar right matters: the currency noun changes form with the count, the subunit must be named correctly, and the document closes with لا غير. This tool produces that full phrasing from a plain decimal amount.

How it works

The amount is first converted to its smallest unit to avoid floating-point error. For a two-decimal currency the value is multiplied by 100 and rounded; for the Jordanian dinar it is multiplied by 1000. That integer is split into a major part and a minor part:

total_minor = round(amount × factor)
major       = floor(total_minor / factor)
minor       = total_minor mod factor

Each part is spelled out with the shared Arabic number engine, then attached to the right noun form — singular, dual, or plural — for its count. The major and minor phrases are joined with و, and لا غير is appended. So 1250.75 SAR becomes a phrase reading “one thousand two hundred and fifty riyals and seventy-five halalas, no more.”

Tips and notes

Pick the currency that matches your document so the subunit name (halalas, fils, or piastres) and the decimal precision are correct — the Jordanian dinar in particular splits into 1000 fils, not 100, so an amount like 5.250 means five dinars and 250 fils. The rounding-to-smallest-unit step means you never get a stray hundredth from binary floating point. For spelling out a bare integer without a currency, or to control the noun gender directly, use the Arabic Number to Words tool.