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Amounts in Arabic words in Qatari riyals

Type an amount in figures and see it written in Arabic words (tafqeet), as on a receipt voucher or a cheque: riyals and dirhams between «فقط» (“only”) and «لا غير» (“and no more”). So 12,500.75 is written «فقط اثنا عشر ألفاً وخمسمائة ريال قطري وخمسة وسبعون درهماً لا غير» (only twelve thousand five hundred Qatari riyals and seventy-five dirhams, and no more).

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The amount in words, in a secondIn Qatari riyals and dirhams, as on a voucher or a cheque
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Western or Arabic-Indic digits, with or without commas, and up to two decimals for the dirhams.

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Amount in Arabic words

فقط اثنا عشر ألفاً وخمسمائة ريال قطري وخمسة وسبعون درهماً لا غير

QAR 12,500.75 = 12,500 riyals and 75 dirhams

About the tafqeet tool

Tafqeet (تفقيط) is writing an amount out in words. This tool turns any amount in Qatari riyals into Arabic words ready to copy, in the form amounts are written on receipt and payment vouchers, cheques and fee agreements. It is the same function the Murafe system uses to write amounts in words on the vouchers and contracts it prints for law firms, so what you see here is what appears on the printed page.

The tool accepts Western digits (0 to 9) and Arabic-Indic digits (٠ to ٩), commas between thousands, and a decimal part of up to two digits, read as dirhams: the Qatari riyal is a hundred dirhams. It writes the counted noun the way Arabic grammar requires for each number: ريال واحد (one riyal), ريالان (two riyals), ثلاثة ريالات (three riyals), أحد عشر ريالاً (eleven riyals), مائة ريال (a hundred riyals), up to hundreds of billions.

The whole conversion runs in your browser: the amount you type is not sent to any server and is not kept after you close the page, so you can use it for real amounts with peace of mind.

Quick facts

Price
Completely free
Sign-up
No account or email needed
Devices
Computer, phone and tablet
Where it runs
In your browser; the amount is not sent to any server
Currency
The Qatari riyal and the dirham (a riyal is 100 dirhams)
Largest amount
QAR 999,999,999,999.99
Result format
«فقط … لا غير» (“only … and no more”) or the words alone

How to use it

  1. Type the amount in figures

    Enter it in the “Amount in figures” box in Western or Arabic-Indic digits, with or without commas between thousands.

  2. Add the dirhams, if any

    Write the dirhams after the decimal point, in one or two digits: 1500.50 means one thousand five hundred riyals and fifty dirhams.

  3. Choose the wording

    Keep “only … and no more” around the words for vouchers and cheques, or switch it off to get the words alone for a sentence in a contract or a letter.

  4. Copy the result and check it

    Press “Copy text” and paste it into the voucher or the contract, then match the figures against the words one last time before signing.

How the counted noun follows the number

Tafqeet looks easy until you reach the counted noun: is it «ريال», «ريالات» or «ريالاً»? The rule that settles it is that the form of the noun is decided by the last part of the number. Here it is in brief, as the tool applies it to the riyal and the dirham:

NumberRuleAs the tool writes it
1 and 2The noun is singular or dual; «واحد» (one) follows it as an adjective, and the dual needs no «اثنين» (two)ريال قطري واحد · ريالان قطريان
3 to 10The number takes the opposite gender to the noun, and the noun is a plural in the genitiveثلاثة ريالات قطرية · عشرة دراهم
11 to 99The noun is singular, in the accusativeأحد عشر ريالاً قطرياً · خمسة وسبعون درهماً
100, 1,000 and a millionThe noun is singular, in the genitive after the number (iḍāfa)مائة ريال قطري · ثلاثة آلاف ريال قطري
200 and 2,000The dual drops its final nūn (ن) when it is joined to the nounمائتا ريال قطري · ألفا ريال قطري

Because the last part of the number decides, 1,250 is written «ألف ومائتان وخمسون ريالاً قطرياً» because it ends in fifty, 1,100 is written «ألف ومائة ريال قطري» because it ends in a hundred, and 1,003 is written «ألف وثلاثة ريالات قطرية» because it ends in three. In a number such as 11,000, «ألف» (thousand) takes the accusative as the specifier and is joined to the riyal, so it loses its nunation: «أحد عشر ألف ريال قطري».

The parts run from the largest to the smallest: billions, then millions, then thousands, then hundreds, each joined to the one before it by «و» (and). Within the units and tens, the unit comes first: «خمسة وعشرون» (five and twenty), not «عشرون وخمسة» (twenty and five). The dirhams come last, joined to the riyals and following their own rule: «وخمسة وسبعون درهماً» (and seventy-five dirhams).

When does a law firm need tafqeet?

A firm writes the amount in words beside the figures on every financial document that may be referred to later: figures alone are easy to alter by a digit or to misread, while words close the door to additions and confusion. Its most common places in day-to-day work:

  • Receipt vouchers: when a client pays a fee instalment in cash, by cheque or by transfer, the amount is written in figures and in words on the voucher they receive.
  • Payment vouchers: when paying fees or expenses on a client’s file, or the firm’s own costs such as rent and salaries.
  • Cheques: the amount is written on the words line, matching the figures box exactly.
  • Fee agreements: the fee is stated in figures and in words, and so are the instalments if it is split.
  • Settlements and acknowledgements: such as an acknowledgement of receipt of an amount, or a settlement that closes an account between two parties.

The phrase «فقط … لا غير» (“only … and no more”) is a writing convention that closes the amount at both ends, leaving no room on the line for a word to be added after it is written. That is why the full form suits vouchers and cheques, while the words alone suit a sentence inside a contract or a letter, such as «أتعاب قدرها 5,000 ريال (خمسة آلاف ريال قطري)» (“a fee of QAR 5,000 (five thousand Qatari riyals)”).

Common questions about tafqeet

Start with «فقط» (only), then write the riyals in words, then the dirhams, if any, joined with «و» (and), and end with «لا غير» (and no more). So 1,500.50 is written «فقط ألف وخمسمائة ريال قطري وخمسون درهماً لا غير». The tool writes this for you, so you can copy it as it is.

Both are correct and both are pronounced the same. «مائة», with an alif, is an older spelling still common in financial documents, and it is the one the tool uses; «مئة» is the spelling many writers prefer today. What matters is keeping to one spelling within the same document.

The Qatari riyal is a hundred dirhams, so whatever comes after the decimal point is written as dirhams joined to the riyals: 250.25 is written «مائتان وخمسون ريالاً قطرياً وخمسة وعشرون درهماً». If you type one digit after the point, such as 250.5, the tool reads it as fifty dirhams, not five.

Because the Arabic dual carries the number by itself, so you write «ريالان» (two riyals) and «درهمان» (two dirhams) with no number before them. The singular works the same way: in «ريال واحد» (one riyal) the number comes after the noun, as an adjective. You may add emphasis with «ريالان اثنان», but it is unusual on vouchers.

Yes. Type the amount in Western digits (123) or Arabic-Indic digits (١٢٣), with or without commas between thousands; the tool also accepts the Arabic decimal separator (٫). It shows the amount in the Western digits usual in financial documents.

Up to QAR 999,999,999,999.99, one dirham short of a trillion, which is more than any voucher needs. If the amount is larger, or has more than two digits after the decimal point, the tool tells you instead of writing a wrong result.

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser, so the amount is not sent to any server and is not kept after you close the page.

In Murafe, the amount on a receipt or payment voucher is written in words in Qatari riyals automatically when it is printed, with the same function that runs on this page, and the fee appears in figures and in words on the printed fee agreement.

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