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One through Ten in Arabic Arabic Numerals
picture by Ron Walker Learning Arabic numbers is a piece of cake, as it were, or khanafa... True Arabic numbers are the ones we use in the West like 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. There's an interesting page on the history of those numbers here. The numbers in use in contemporary Arab World are derivations of Hindu/Indian numbers. Their pictures, and pronunciations are below (1-10): You write the numbers left to right, rather than right to left like Arabic words. So the number 12 would read the same way in English and Arabic. Here's how to write and say numbers one through ten:
zero - siffer (the diamond shaped number in ash-ara)
Easy as wahid, ithnein, thalatha, right? When you write the numbers, again, they go from left to right, like English words and numbers, but opposite from Arabic language. For example the number 127 would look like this:
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(wahid - with a short "i," rhymes with 'id' -
rather than 'waheed')
(ith-nain)
(thalatha)
(arba'a)
(khamsa)
(sita)
(seba'a)
(thamaniya - like tha-man-iya)
(tisa'a)
(ash-ara)