npm install arabicfmt

npm install arabicfmt
# or
yarn add arabicfmt
# or
pnpm add arabicfmt

<script type="module">
  import { formatCurrency, formatHijri } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/arabicfmt/+esm";

  console.log(formatCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR", numerals: "arab" })); // ١٬٢٣٤٫٥٠ ر.س
  console.log(formatHijri(new Date(), { numerals: "arab" }));                 // ٢٧ ذو الحجة ١٤٤٧ هـ
</script>

import {
  formatCurrency,      // correct symbol + precision for every Arab currency
  formatCompact,       // 1,200,000 → "1.2M" / "١٫٢ مليون"
  arabicToWords,       // 1234 → "ألف ومئتان وأربعة وثلاثون"
  spellCurrency,       // تفقيط: 1234.5 SAR → "...ريالاً وخمسون هللةً"
  arabicOrdinal,       // 25 → "الخامس والعشرون"
  formatDuration,      // 7_500_000ms → "ساعتان وخمس دقائق"
  formatFileSize,      // 1536 → "1.5 كيلوبايت"
  formatRelativeTime,  // "منذ ٣ أيام"
  formatList,          // ["أحمد","علي"] → "أحمد وعلي"
  parseCurrency,       // "١٬٢٣٤٫٥٠ ر.س" → 1234.5
  arabicPlural,        // full 6-form Arabic plural selection
  sortArabic,          // Arabic-locale collation
  slugify,             // "مدينة نصر" → "mdynh-nsr" (URL slugs)
  isValidIBAN,         // ISO 7064 mod-97 IBAN checksum
  isValidSaudiId,      // Saudi national ID / Iqama check digit
  isolateForeign,      // fix broken RTL sentences
  normalizeForSearch,  // search-key normalization
  detectLocale,        // auto-detect from browser / Node environment
} from "arabicfmt";

import { formatHijri, toHijri } from "arabicfmt/umalqura"; // deterministic Hijri calendar

// Currency
formatCurrency(1.2,   { currency: "KWD" });                      // "1.200 د.ك"
formatCurrency(1234,  { locale: "ar-SA", numerals: "arab" });    // "١٬٢٣٤٫٠٠ ر.س"
formatCurrency(-500,  { currency: "SAR", accounting: true });    // "(500.00 ر.س)"
formatCompact(1_500_000, { locale: "ar", numerals: "arab" });    // "١٫٥ مليون"

// Number to Arabic words
arabicToWords(1234);                     // "ألف ومئتان وأربعة وثلاثون"
arabicToWords(1_000_000);               // "مليون"
arabicToWords(5, { gender: "female" }); // "خمس"

// Spell money for invoices & cheques (التفقيط)
spellCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR" });
// "ألف ومئتان وأربعة وثلاثون ريالاً وخمسون هللةً"
spellCurrency(100, { currency: "EGP", suffix: true }); // "مئة جنيه فقط لا غير"

// Ordinals — gender-aware
arabicOrdinal(1);                        // "الأول"
arabicOrdinal(25);                       // "الخامس والعشرون"
arabicOrdinal(1, { gender: "female" });  // "الأولى"

// Duration & file size
formatDuration(7_500_000);               // "ساعتان وخمس دقائق"
formatFileSize(1536);                    // "1.5 كيلوبايت"

// Lists
formatList(["أحمد", "محمد", "علي"]);                    // "أحمد ومحمد وعلي"
formatList(["تفاح", "موز"], { type: "disjunction" });   // "تفاح أو موز"

// Hijri dates (deterministic — same output on Node, Chrome, Safari, Hermes)
formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"));                            // "1 ربيع الآخر 1447 هـ"
formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"), { numerals: "arab" });     // "١ ربيع الآخر ١٤٤٧ هـ"
toHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"));                               // { year: 1447, month: 4, day: 1 }

// Relative time
formatRelativeTime(new Date(Date.now() - 3 * 86400_000));      // "منذ 3 أيام"

// Parse formatted strings back to numbers
parseCurrency("١٬٢٣٤٫٥٠ ر.س");   // 1234.5
parseCurrency("(500.00 SAR)");    // -500

// RTL
isolateForeign("اتصل على +1 (555) 234-5678 الآن"); // phone stays intact in RTL

// Locale auto-detection
detectLocale(); // "ar-SA" in a Saudi browser, "ar-EG" in Node with LANG=ar_EG

import { formatCurrency, resolveCurrencySymbol, getCurrencyInfo } from "arabicfmt/currency";

formatCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR" });
// → "1,234.50 ر.س"   (auto: safe text symbol, renders everywhere today)

formatCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR", symbolMode: "new" });
// → "1,234.50 ⃁"     (U+20C1 — use with a webfont; see webfont guide below)

formatCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR", symbolMode: "code" });
// → "1,234.50 SAR"   (ISO code — for accounting tables)

formatCurrency(1.2, { currency: "KWD" });  // "1.200 د.ك"  ← 3 decimals
formatCurrency(1.2, { currency: "BHD" });  // "1.200 د.ب"  ← 3 decimals
formatCurrency(1.2, { currency: "IQD" });  // "1.200 ع.د"  ← 3 decimals (ISO 4217, not CLDR's 0)
formatCurrency(500, { currency: "KMF" });  // "500 ف.ج.ق"  ← 0 decimals
formatCurrency(500, { currency: "SAR" });  // "500.00 ر.س" ← 2 decimals

// Resolve from locale region — no need to know the currency code
formatCurrency(99.9,  { locale: "ar-BH" });                  // "99.900 د.ب"
formatCurrency(1234,  { locale: "ar-AE", numerals: "arab", symbolMode: "text" }); // "١٬٢٣٤٫٠٠ د.إ"  (auto → U+20C3 sign)

// Accounting notation (negatives in parentheses)
formatCurrency(-1234.5, { currency: "SAR", accounting: true }); // "(1,234.50 ر.س)"

// Hide/override
formatCurrency(100, { currency: "SAR", showSymbol: false, fractionDigits: 0 }); // "100"

// Currency metadata
getCurrencyInfo("SAR");
// {
//   code: "SAR", digits: 2,
//   symbols: { auto: "ر.س", text: "ر.س", code: "SAR", new: "⃁" },
//   unicode: { codepoint: "U+20C1", unicodeVersion: "17.0", live: true, autoDefault: false },
//   displayName: "ريال سعودي"
// }

/* Scope the Saudi Riyal font to just that codepoint — zero impact on body text */
@font-face {
  font-family: "Riyal";
  src: url("/fonts/saudi-riyal.woff2") format("woff2");
  unicode-range: U+20C1;
}
:root { font-family: "Riyal", "Noto Naskh Arabic", sans-serif; }

import {
  formatNumber, formatCompact, formatPercent,
  toArabicDigits, toLatinDigits,
  parseNumber, parseCurrency,
  arabicToWords,
  formatRelativeTime,
} from "arabicfmt/number";

// Standard
formatNumber(1_234_567.89, { locale: "en" });              // "1,234,567.89"
formatNumber(1234.5,       { numerals: "arab" });           // "١٬٢٣٤٫٥"

// Compact / short notation — dashboards and data cards
formatCompact(1_500_000);                                   // "1.5M"
formatCompact(1_500_000, { locale: "ar" });                 // "1.5 مليون"
formatCompact(1_500_000, { locale: "ar", numerals: "arab" }); // "١٫٥ مليون"

// Percent
formatPercent(0.853, { locale: "en" });                    // "85.3%"

// Transliteration
toArabicDigits("Order #2026");                             // "Order #٢٠٢٦"
toLatinDigits("٢٠٢٦");                                     // "2026"  (handles Persian ۰–۹ too)

// Parsing — round-trip support
parseNumber("١٬٢٣٤٫٥٦");         // 1234.56  (Eastern Arabic digits + separators)
parseNumber("1,234.56");          // 1234.56  (Western)
parseCurrency("١٬٢٣٤٫٥٠ ر.س");  // 1234.5
parseCurrency("(500.00 SAR)");   // -500      (accounting notation)

// Relative time
formatRelativeTime(new Date(Date.now() - 3 * 86400_000));            // "منذ 3 أيام"
formatRelativeTime(new Date(Date.now() + 3600_000), new Date(), { locale: "en" }); // "in 1 hour"

import { arabicToWords } from "arabicfmt";

// Basic
arabicToWords(0)       // "صفر"
arabicToWords(1)       // "واحد"
arabicToWords(2)       // "اثنان"
arabicToWords(11)      // "أحد عشر"
arabicToWords(25)      // "خمسة وعشرون"
arabicToWords(100)     // "مئة"
arabicToWords(350)     // "ثلاثمئة وخمسون"

// Thousands
arabicToWords(1000)    // "ألف"
arabicToWords(2000)    // "ألفان"
arabicToWords(5000)    // "خمسة آلاف"
arabicToWords(11000)   // "أحد عشر ألفاً"
arabicToWords(100000)  // "مئة ألف"

// Millions / billions
arabicToWords(1_000_000)    // "مليون"
arabicToWords(2_000_000)    // "مليونان"
arabicToWords(5_000_000)    // "خمسة ملايين"
arabicToWords(1_000_000_000)// "مليار"

// Large composite
arabicToWords(1_234_567)
// "مليون ومئتان وأربعة وثلاثون ألفاً وخمسمئة وسبعة وستون"

// Gender agreement — feminine noun (ليرة، روبية…)
arabicToWords(3, { gender: "female" })  // "ثلاث"
arabicToWords(5, { gender: "female" })  // "خمس"

// Negative
arabicToWords(-42)  // "سالب اثنان وأربعون"

// Decimals — opt in (default truncates, stays backward compatible)
arabicToWords(3.14, { fraction: "digits" })  // "ثلاثة فاصلة واحد أربعة"
arabicToWords(3.14, { fraction: "number" })  // "ثلاثة فاصلة أربعة عشر"

// Common fractions (denominators 2–10)
import { arabicFraction } from "arabicfmt";
arabicFraction(1, 2)  // "نصف"
arabicFraction(3, 4)  // "ثلاثة أرباع"
arabicFraction(2, 3)  // "ثلثان"

import { spellCurrency } from "arabicfmt";

spellCurrency(1234.5, { currency: "SAR" })
// "ألف ومئتان وأربعة وثلاثون ريالاً وخمسون هللةً"

// Unit agreement is automatic (العدد والمعدود)
spellCurrency(1,   { currency: "SAR" })   // "ريال واحد"      (singular)
spellCurrency(2,   { currency: "SAR" })   // "ريالان"         (dual)
spellCurrency(3,   { currency: "SAR" })   // "ثلاثة ريالات"   (plural, 3–10)
spellCurrency(11,  { currency: "SAR" })   // "أحد عشر ريالاً" (accusative, 11–99)
spellCurrency(100, { currency: "SAR" })   // "مئة ريال"       (genitive singular)

// Minor-unit precision comes from CLDR — KWD = 1000 fils, SAR = 100 halalas
spellCurrency(1.5, { currency: "KWD" })   // "دينار واحد وخمسمئة فلس"
spellCurrency(0.75, { currency: "SAR" })  // "خمس وسبعون هللةً"

// Cheque-ready ending and locale-derived currency
spellCurrency(100, { currency: "EGP", suffix: true }) // "مئة جنيه فقط لا غير"
spellCurrency(-5,  { locale: "ar-AE" })               // "سالب خمسة دراهم"

import { arabicOrdinal } from "arabicfmt";

arabicOrdinal(1)    // "الأول"
arabicOrdinal(2)    // "الثاني"
arabicOrdinal(10)   // "العاشر"
arabicOrdinal(11)   // "الحادي عشر"
arabicOrdinal(25)   // "الخامس والعشرون"

// Gender agreement
arabicOrdinal(1, { gender: "female" })   // "الأولى"
arabicOrdinal(25, { gender: "female" })  // "الخامسة والعشرون"

// Indefinite (drop the article ال)
arabicOrdinal(3, { definite: false })    // "ثالث"
arabicOrdinal(25, { definite: false })   // "خامس وعشرون"

import { formatDuration } from "arabicfmt";

formatDuration(7_500_000)                  // "ساعتان وخمس دقائق"  (2h 5m)
formatDuration(90, { input: "s" })         // "دقيقة واحدة وثلاثون ثانيةً"
formatDuration(3_600_000, { largest: 1 })  // "ساعة واحدة"
formatDuration(2 * 86_400_000)             // "يومان"
formatDuration(500)                        // "أقل من ثانية"

// Restrict the units considered
formatDuration(125 * 60_000, { units: ["minute"], largest: 1 })
// "مئة وخمس وعشرون دقيقةً"

import { formatFileSize } from "arabicfmt";

formatFileSize(0)                          // "0 بايت"
formatFileSize(1536)                       // "1.5 كيلوبايت"
formatFileSize(5 * 1024 * 1024)            // "5 ميجابايت"
formatFileSize(1_500_000, { base: 1000 })  // "1.5 ميجابايت"  (decimal/SI)
formatFileSize(2048, { numerals: "arab" }) // "٢ كيلوبايت"
formatFileSize(2048, { unitStyle: "latin" })// "2 KB"

import { arabicPluralForm, arabicPlural } from "arabicfmt";

// Get the CLDR form name
arabicPluralForm(0)    // "zero"
arabicPluralForm(1)    // "one"
arabicPluralForm(2)    // "two"
arabicPluralForm(5)    // "few"   (3–10)
arabicPluralForm(15)   // "many"  (11–99)
arabicPluralForm(100)  // "other"

// Select the right string
const forms = {
  zero:  "لا كتب",
  one:   "كتاب واحد",
  two:   "كتابان",
  few:   "كتب",       // 3–10
  many:  "كتاباً",    // 11–99
  other: "كتاب",
};

arabicPlural(0,   forms)  // "لا كتب"
arabicPlural(1,   forms)  // "كتاب واحد"
arabicPlural(2,   forms)  // "كتابان"
arabicPlural(5,   forms)  // "كتب"
arabicPlural(25,  forms)  // "كتاباً"
arabicPlural(100, forms)  // "كتاب"

import { toHijri, fromHijri, formatHijri, umalquraToGregorian } from "arabicfmt/umalqura";

// Convert
toHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"))        // { year: 1447, month: 4, day: 1 }
umalquraToGregorian(1447, 9, 1)        // JavaScript Date — first day of Ramadan 1447

// Format — Arabic
formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"))
// "1 ربيع الآخر 1447 هـ"

formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"), { numerals: "arab" })
// "١ ربيع الآخر ١٤٤٧ هـ"

// Format — English
formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"), { locale: "en" })
// "1 Rabi al-Thani 1447 AH"

// Format — ISO-style numeric
formatHijri(new Date("2025-09-23"), {
  locale: "en", month: "2-digit", day: "2-digit", order: "ymd", era: false,
})
// "1447/04/01"

import {
  HIJRI_MONTHS_AR,     // Arabic Hijri month names
  HIJRI_MONTHS_EN,     // English Hijri month names
  GREGORIAN_MONTHS_AR, // Arabic Gregorian month names (يناير، فبراير…)
  GREGORIAN_MONTHS_EN,
  ARABIC_WEEKDAYS_AR,  // Arabic weekday names (الأحد، الاثنين…)
  ARABIC_WEEKDAYS_EN,
} from "arabicfmt/date";

HIJRI_MONTHS_AR[8]        // "رمضان"  (index 0 = Muharram)
GREGORIAN_MONTHS_AR[0]    // "يناير"  (index 0 = January)
ARABIC_WEEKDAYS_AR[5]     // "الجمعة" (index 0 = Sunday)

import { detectDirection, isolate, isolateForeign, stripBidi } from "arabicfmt/bidi";

// Before fix: "+1 (555) 234-5678" flips the area code in RTL context
// After fix:  the phone number is wrapped in Unicode isolates — sentence intact
isolateForeign("اتصل على +1 (555) 234-5678 الآن");

detectDirection("مرحبا");   // "rtl"
detectDirection("Hello");   // "ltr"

isolate("9:41 AM");         // FSI … PDI isolate around a mixed run
stripBidi(dirtyStr);        // remove every Unicode bidi control character

import {
  stripTashkeel,
  normalizeArabic,
  normalizeForSearch,
  sortArabic,
  compareArabic,
} from "arabicfmt/text";

stripTashkeel("مُحَمَّد")        // "محمد"
normalizeArabic("الأحمد")        // "الاحمد"  (alef variants unified)

// Robust search — these two strings produce the same key:
normalizeForSearch("مُؤسَّسة") === normalizeForSearch("موسسه")  // true

// Arabic-locale collation
sortArabic(["ياسر", "أحمد", "بسام"])   // ["أحمد", "بسام", "ياسر"]
["ج", "أ", "ب"].sort(compareArabic)    // ["أ", "ب", "ج"]

import { formatList } from "arabicfmt";

formatList(["أحمد", "محمد", "علي"])                      // "أحمد ومحمد وعلي"
formatList(["تفاح", "موز", "برتقال"], { type: "disjunction" }) // "تفاح أو موز أو برتقال"
formatList([1, 2, 3], { numerals: "arab" })              // "١ و٢ و٣"

import { transliterate, slugify } from "arabicfmt";

transliterate("مُحَمَّد")    // "muhammad"   (vowelled)
transliterate("محمد")        // "mhmd"       (bare → consonant-only)
transliterate("القاهرة")     // "alqahrh"
transliterate("غرفة ٢٠١")    // "ghrfh 201"  (digits converted)

slugify("مدينة نصر")                      // "mdynh-nsr"
slugify("القاهرة 2026")                   // "alqahrh-2026"
slugify("Hello العالم", { separator: "_" }) // "hello_alalm"
slugify("Hello World", { lowercase: false }) // "Hello-World"

import { isValidIBAN, formatIBAN, isValidSaudiId, saudiIdType } from "arabicfmt";

isValidIBAN("SA03 8000 0000 6080 1016 7519")  // true
isValidIBAN("SA03 8000 0000 6080 1016 7510")  // false (bad checksum)
formatIBAN("SA0380000000608010167519")        // "SA03 8000 0000 6080 1016 7519"

isValidSaudiId("1012345672")                  // true
saudiIdType("1012345672")                     // "citizen"
saudiIdType("2100000005")                     // "resident"  (Iqama)

import { formatCurrency, detectLocale } from "arabicfmt";
import { formatHijri } from "arabicfmt/umalqura";

export function PriceTag({ amount, currency }: { amount: number; currency: string }) {
  const locale = detectLocale();
  return (
    <span dir="rtl">
      {formatCurrency(amount, { currency, locale })}
    </span>
  );
}

export function HijriDate({ date }: { date: Date }) {
  return <time>{formatHijri(date, { numerals: "arab" })}</time>;
}

import { formatCurrency } from "arabicfmt";

// composable
export function useArabicCurrency(currency: string) {
  return (amount: number) =>
    formatCurrency(amount, { currency, numerals: "arab" });
}

import { formatCurrency, detectLocale } from "arabicfmt";
import { formatHijri } from "arabicfmt/umalqura";

app.get("/invoice/:id", (req, res) => {
  const locale = req.headers["accept-language"]?.split(",")[0] ?? "ar-SA";
  const total  = formatCurrency(order.total, { locale });
  const date   = formatHijri(order.date, { locale: "ar" });
  res.json({ total, date });
});

import { detectLocale } from "arabicfmt";

// Browser: reads navigator.language
// Node.js: reads LANG / LANGUAGE / LC_ALL / LC_MESSAGES env vars
// Fallback: "ar"

const locale = detectLocale(); // "ar-SA", "ar-EG", "en-US", …
formatCurrency(1234, { locale });

import { formatCurrency, spellCurrency } from "arabicfmt/currency";
import { formatNumber, arabicToWords, formatDuration, formatFileSize } from "arabicfmt/number";
import { formatHijri, toHijri }  from "arabicfmt/date";       // tabular core (tiny)
import { formatHijri, toHijri }  from "arabicfmt/umalqura";   // accurate, opt-in
import { isolateForeign }        from "arabicfmt/bidi";
import { normalizeForSearch, arabicPlural, slugify } from "arabicfmt/text";
import { isValidIBAN, isValidSaudiId }      from "arabicfmt/validate";

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arabicfmt": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "arabicfmt-mcp"] }
  }
}

cd examples && npm install
node currency.mjs   # or numbers / words / dates / text / bidi / validate

cd demo && npm install && npm run dev