What Is the Abjad Calculator?
The abjad calculator shows you each Arabic letter in a word or phrase along with its name and its value in Arabic numerology. It lets you calculate the abjad value with or without hamza ([ء]).
How to Use the Abjad Calculator
Type a letter, word, or phrase into the calculator to get the abjad value. You can choose to ignore hamza since it can be interpreted differently.
What Are Abjad Numerals?
Abjad numerals are a numbering system for the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. The system is mostly used in mathematics, Arabic numerology, and for numbering items in lists. Arabic speakers have been using this alphabet numbering system for more than a thousand years.
In Arabic, "abjad" means "alphabet", so the term "abjad numerals" simply means "alphabet numerals" or "alphabet numbers". The name "abjad" comes from the first four letters in the ordered alphabet: A, B, G, and D.
What Is an Abjad Value?
There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. In the abjad system, each letter corresponds to a number.
- The first nine letters of the alphabet (in sequence) are numbered from 1 to 9. So ʾalif (the first letter of the alphabet) corresponds to 1, bāʾ (the second letter of the alphabet) is 2, and so on.
- The next nine letters correspond to multiples of 10 up to 90: 10 is yāʾ, 20 is kāf, and 90 is ṣād.
- The last nine letters correspond to multiples of 100 up to 1,000. For example, rāʾ represents 200, and ghayn, the final letter, represents 1,000.
What Is the Abjad Value of Hamza?
In Arabic, a hamza ([ء]) represents the glottal stop before or after a word beginning with a vowel.
In abjad value, both ʾalif and hamza have the value 1. However, hamza is not always recognized as a letter when determining abjad value. So, for example, the word bahá will have a value of nine with the hamza included or eight without it.
To account for this, the Abjad Calculator lets you include or ignore the hamza value in a phrase.
How to Calculate Abjad Value
The Abjad Calculator is the quickest and easiest way to calculate the abjad value of an Arabic word or phrase. Just type a letter, word, or phrase in the box to see the translation.
You can also calculate an abjad value by hand. Use the chart on this page to get the value of each Arabic letter, then sum the values.
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