What is the abjad system?

Abjad, or hisab al-jummal, is the traditional Arabic practice of assigning a number to each letter. The first nine letters are 1 to 9, the next nine are 10 to 90, and the rest run 100 to 1000. Summing the letters of a word gives its abjad value, used historically for chronograms, dates, and numerology.

Which abjad order does this use?

It uses the standard Eastern (Mashriqi) order: أ=1, ب=2, ج=3, د=4, ه=5, و=6, ز=7, ح=8, ط=9, ي=10, ك=20, ل=30, م=40, ن=50, س=60, ع=70, ف=80, ص=90, ق=100, ر=200, ش=300, ت=400, ث=500, خ=600, ذ=700, ض=800, ظ=900, غ=1000. The Western (Maghribi) order differs for several letters and is not used here.

How are hamza and alif variants counted?

All alif and hamza-bearing forms (ا أ إ آ ء ئ ؤ) reduce to the value 1, and ta marbuta (ة) counts as 5 like ha (ه). This matches conventional abjad practice where the carrier seat does not change the value.

What is the digital root shown?

The digital root is the single digit you reach by repeatedly adding the digits of the total. For example 92 gives 9+2=11, then 1+1=2. Numerologists often reduce an abjad sum this way; it is shown for convenience alongside the full total.

Are vowel marks counted?

No. Short-vowel harakat, tanwin, shadda, sukun, the dagger alif, and the tatweel elongation mark carry no abjad value and are stripped before counting, so only the consonantal skeleton contributes to the sum.

What is the Arabic Abjad Numerology Calculator?

Compute the traditional abjad (hisab al-jummal) numeric value of any Arabic word or phrase, summing each letter from أ=1 through غ=1000, with a per-letter breakdown and digital root. Runs entirely in your browser with no data uploaded. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

Arabic Abjad Numerology Calculator

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The abjad value of Arabic words

Long before Arabic adopted Indian numerals, letters doubled as numbers under the abjad (hisab al-jummal) system. Poets encoded dates as chronograms, scribes numbered lists, and the values still appear in numerology and decorative inscriptions. This tool sums the abjad value of any Arabic text you enter and shows how each letter contributes.

The complete abjad letter-value table

The Eastern (Mashriqi) order used by this tool assigns values in three tiers:

Letters	Values
أ ب ج د هـ و ز ح ط	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
ي ك ل م ن س ع ف ص	10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
ق ر ش ت ث خ ذ ض ظ غ	100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000

The Western (Maghribi) order, used across North Africa, differs for the letters from ص onward. This calculator uses the Eastern order, which is standard in the Arab Mashriq, Iran, and Turkey.

How it works

Every Arabic consonant maps to a fixed value. The tool strips diacritics, looks up each remaining letter in the abjad table, and adds the values:

محمد -> م(40) + ح(8) + م(40) + د(4) = 92

The first nine letters cover 1-9, the next nine cover the tens 10-90, then the hundreds 100-900, and finally غ=1000. Alongside the total, the tool computes the digital root by repeatedly summing the digits down to one digit (92 to 9+2=11 to 1+1=2).

Historical uses of abjad

Chronograms. Classical Arabic poetry used abjad to embed dates in verses. When a poet composed a line commemorating an event in a particular year, they would craft the text so that the sum of its letters equalled that Hijri year. Readers could verify the date by computing the sum themselves.

Numbered sections. Medieval Islamic manuscripts numbered chapters and sections using abjad letters rather than the Indian numerals that eventually displaced them, much as Roman numerals persisted in European manuscripts long after Arabic numerals were available.

Numerology and the Islamic esoteric tradition. The science of letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf) attached theological and cosmological meaning to abjad values. Individual divine names carry specific totals — رحمن (ar-raḥmān, the Merciful) sums to 298 in the Mashriqi order — and these sums were studied in mystical and Sufi contexts.

Notes on special characters

Only the consonantal skeleton counts. Diacritics (harakat), the tatweel elongation mark, and the tanwin endings are stripped before summing. Hamza seats and alif variants (ا أ إ آ ء ئ ؤ) all count as 1, and ta marbuta (ة) counts as 5 like ha (هـ). This means “محمد” (Muhammad) sums to 92 regardless of how it is vowelled.