How to say "million" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningmillion

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

مَلْيُون

malyūnמליון

مليون

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מיליון

milyonمِلْيُون

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

No Semitic root here — Hebrew מיליון and Arabic malyūn both borrowed the same European word (Italian milione), so this one comes for free.

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In a phrase

مَلْيُون دُولَار
malyūn dūlārמליון דולאר

a million dollars

Plural

مَلَايِين
malāyīnמלאיין

broken plural CaCāCīC — the pattern long loanwords get, like صُنْدُوق→صَنَادِيق.

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