How to say "percent" in Arabic
CognateMeaningpercent
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
bi-l-miʾaבל-מאה
بالمئة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
akhuzأَخُوز
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Percent is just 'hundred' put to work: بالمئة literally means 'by the hundred', built on the same miʾa that's a dead ringer for Hebrew מאה (see 'hundred'). Hebrew's everyday word for percent, אחוז, took a different route entirely — from אחז 'to grasp, hold' — so the real cognate here is with מאה itself, not with אחוז.
Related Hebrew word:מאהme'aمِئَا
Learn it
On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Follows 'hundred' → miyye in the dialect: bil-miyye.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo says 'in the hundred': khamsa fil-miyya, five percent.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
ʿeshra fel-mya — ten percent; mya is the Darija hundred.
In a phrase
fifty percent