How to say "hundred" in Arabic
CognateMeaninghundred
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مِئَة
miʾaמאה
مئة
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מאה
me'aمِئَا
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
מאה and miʾa are the same Proto-Semitic word *miʾat — and both spellings still preserve the ancient glottal stop in the middle (א in Hebrew, ء in Arabic).
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How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
مِيِّة
miyyeמיהThe hamza melts into y in the dialect: miyye.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مِيَّة
miyyaמיהCairo: miyya.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
مْيَة
myaמיהDarija: mya — two hundred is myatāyn.
In a phrase
مِئَة سَنَة
miʾat sanaמאת סנהa hundred years
Plural
مِئَات
miʾātמאאתsound feminine plural -āt; miʾāt 'hundreds of' parallels Hebrew מאות.