I think the Arabic speaker are the same like us. They don’t have word for million or billions and instead use the English one.
Exactly, the Arabic language
does not have a specific word for
million.
In the pre-Islamic era and at the time of the Prophet Muhammad, Arabs did not have a specific word for a million. During the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab, Muslims began to use the expression "
alaf alaf ألف ألف " (meaning:
thousand thousand ) to refer to a
million.
alaf ألف = thousand .
alaf alaf ألف ألف =thousand thousand =( 1000 x 1000 )=million .
But now the Arabs have
stopped using the expression "
alaf alaf ألف ألف" and instead use the word
million.
look at this hadith da’eef حديث ضعيف ( hadith weak ) :
Hadith about du’a for entering the marketplace "دعاء دخول السوق" :
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever enters the marketplace and says ‘La ilaha ill-Allahu wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahu’l-mulku wa lahu’l-hamdu, yuhyi wa yumit wa huwa hayyun la yamut, bi yadihi’l-khayr, wa huwa ‘ala kulli shay’in qadir (There is no god but Allah Alone, with no partner or associate; to Him belongs sovereignty and to Him be all praise; He grants life and causes death, and He is ever-living and will never die; in His Hand is all goodness and He has power over all things),’ Allah will record for him one
thousand thousand good deeds, and will erase from his record one
thousand thousand bad deeds, and will raise him one
thousand thousand degrees.”. (Narrated by at-Tirmidhi in as-Sunan, 3428) .
Imam at-Tirmidhi "الترمذي " described it as hadith gharib حديث غريب ( strange hadith ) .
عن جده عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه ، عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم قال : " من دخل السوق ، فقال : لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له ، له الملك ، وله الحمد ، يحيي ويميت ، بيده الخير ، وهو على كل شيء قدير ، كتب الله له
ألف ألف حسنة ، ومحا عنه
ألف ألف سيئة ، ورفع له
ألف ألف درجة ، وبنى له بيتا في الجنة " .