arabic numbering in php?

[ahmed at piousity dot net]

alsalam 3alaikum wa 3eid mubarak all,
hope all is well insha'Allah.  i had a quick question... i tried googling
for a bit but couldn't find anything really (altho i might have missed
something).

i want to do something like:

for ($i=0; $i<290; $i++){
  // display i in arabic or append it to a string or something
}

is there an easy way to do this?

thanks,
wsalam 3alaikum,
-ahmed