Write an amount in Arabic words for a cheque: dirham, riyal, dinar, with fils and halalas
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Checked against sources on 9 Oct 2026.Tafqeet writes a cheque amount in Arabic words: AED 1,250.50 becomes فقط ألف ومائتان وخمسون درهماً إماراتياً وخمسون فلساً لا غير. The counted noun changes with the number, plural after 3 to 10 and singular accusative after 11 to 99, and 200 or 2,000 drop their nun before the noun: مائتا درهم, ألفا درهم.
Type the amount in figures, with the fils or halalas after the decimal point, or tap an example.
Choose the currency: AED, SAR, KWD, QAR, OMR or BHD.
Keep “only” (فقط … لا غير) on for a cheque, and choose whether to add the country name.
Copy the Arabic line, or the English line for the same amount, and write it on the cheque or invoice.
Cheques, invoices and contracts in the Gulf state the amount twice: in figures and in words, the words usually in Arabic and often in English too. This tool writes both lines for an amount in UAE dirhams, Saudi riyals, Kuwaiti dinars, Qatari riyals, Omani rials or Bahraini dinars, with the subunit.
Why the Arabic is hard to get right. The word for the currency changes with the number. One and two put the noun first (درهم واحد, درهمان). Three to ten take the opposite gender to the noun and a plural (ثلاثة دراهم, ثلاث هللات). Eleven to ninety-nine take a singular in the accusative (خمسون درهماً), and hundreds, thousands and millions a singular in the genitive (مائة درهم, ألف درهم). The last part of a long number decides the form, and a dual such as مائتان or ألفان loses its nun in front of the noun: مائتا درهم, ألفا درهم.
| Amount | Arabic |
|---|---|
| 1 | درهم واحد |
| 3 | ثلاثة دراهم |
| 11 | أحد عشر درهماً |
| 200 | مائتا درهم |
| 2,000 | ألفا درهم |
| 1,250 | ألف ومائتان وخمسون درهماً |
Subunits. The dirham and the Saudi and Qatari riyals have 100 subunits (fils, halalas, dirhams); the Kuwaiti and Bahraini dinars and the Omani rial have 1,000 (fils, baisa), so those amounts take three decimals. Halala and baisa are feminine nouns: ثلاث هللات, خمس بيسات.
Checked against the classical model. The tests compare the rules with number phrases from the Quran, such as أحد عشر كوكباً, اثنتا عشرة عيناً and تسع وتسعون نعجة, and the English line with this site's Rupees to Words tool.
Options. “Only” wraps the words in فقط … لا غير, so nothing can be added after them. The country name adds إماراتي, سعودي and the rest, agreeing with the noun.
What it does not do. It writes amounts up to 999,999,999,999. It does not fill in or print a cheque, and it uses مائة, the spelling common on cheques, where newer texts write مئة.
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Write ألف ومائتان وخمسون درهماً, and on a cheque wrap it as فقط ألف ومائتان وخمسون درهماً لا غير. The noun is singular and accusative because the last part of the number, fifty, is between eleven and ninety-nine; with 50 fils it continues وخمسون فلساً.
Write ألفا ريال, not ألفان ريال: a dual number loses its final nun when the noun follows it directly. On a cheque that is فقط ألفا ريال سعودي لا غير. The same rule gives مائتا ريال for 200 and مليونا ريال for 2,000,000.
The UAE dirham is divided into 100 fils (فلس), the Saudi riyal into 100 halalas (هللة, plural هللات) and the Qatari riyal into 100 dirhams. The Kuwaiti and Bahraini dinars have 1,000 fils and the Omani rial 1,000 baisa (بيسة), so they take three decimals.
Faqat means only and la ghayr means nothing more. Placed before and after the amount in words, as in فقط ألف درهم لا غير, the words close the line so no one can add to the amount. The tool adds them by default and has a switch to remove them.
Numbers from three to ten take the opposite gender to the singular noun. Dirham is masculine, so three is ثلاثة; halala is feminine, so three is ثلاث. From eleven upwards the rule changes again, and the tool applies the right form for every number.
Yes. Under the Arabic line it writes the same amount in English, such as One Thousand Two Hundred Fifty UAE Dirhams and Fifty Fils Only, for cheques and invoices that ask for both. Both lines have their own copy button.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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