lakh

English

Alternative forms

• lac

Etymology

From Urdu لاکھ / Hindi लाख ‎(lākh), from Sanskrit लक्षं ‎(lakṣaṇ).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑk/

Numeral

lakh ‎(plural lakhs)

1. (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong) One hundred thousand. Often used with units of money.
   • 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain - West Indies

     But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.

   • 2012 November 13, Neeraj Chauhan & Dwaipayan Ghosh, “Couple from Maharashtra held for Rs 1,100 crore stock scam”, in Times of India^[1]:

     After a hunt lasting more than a year-and-a-half, police have arrested a couple for duping around 2 lakh people in one of India's biggest investment frauds involving an estimated Rs 1,100 crore.

   • 2013 January 3, N. Gopal Raj, “Polio free does not mean paralysis free” [2], The Hindu

     According to data published in WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record, India’s annualised non-polio AFP rate for 2011 stood at 15.06 per one lakh children below 15 years of age, compared to a global rate that year of 5.48.

Translations

one hundred thousand

• Arabic: لَاك ‎(lāk)
• Assamese: লাখ ‎(lākh)
• Bengali: লাখ ‎(lakh), লক্ষ ‎(lokkho)
• Burmese: သိန်း (my) ‎(sin:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉克 ‎(lākè), 洛叉 ‎(luòchā), 十萬 (zh), 十万 (zh) ‎(shíwàn)

• Dhivehi: ލައްކަ ‎(laka)
• Gujarati: લાખ ? ‎(lākh)
• Hindi: लाख (hi) m ‎(lākh)
• Japanese: 洛叉 ‎(らくしゃ, rakusha), ラーク ‎(rāku), 十万 ‎(じゅうまん, jūman)
• Kannada: ಲಕ್ಷ (kn) ‎(lakṣa)
• Khmer: សែន (km) ‎(saen), លក្ខ (km) ‎(leak)
• Korean: 라크 ‎(rakeu)
• Lao: ແສນ ‎(sǣn)
• Malayalam: ലക്ഷം (ml) ‎(lakṣaṃ)
• Marathi: लाख ‎(lākh), लक्ष (mr) ‎(lakṣa)
• Nepali: लाख ‎(lākh)
• Oriya: ଲକ୍ଷ (or) ‎(lakṣa)

• Pashto: لک ‎(lak)
• Persian: لک (fa) ‎(lak)
• Polish: lakh (pl) m
• Portuguese: laque m, lacassá m, lequessá m
• Punjabi: ਲੱਖ ‎(lakkh), لکّھ ‎(lakkh)
• Russian: лакх m ‎(lakx), лак (ru) m ‎(lak)
• Sanskrit: लक्षं m ‎(lakṣaṇ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лак m

  Roman: lak (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ලක්ෂය ‎(lakṣaya)
• Swahili: laki (sw), lakhi
• Tamil: இலட்சம் (ta) ‎(ilaṭcam)
• Telugu: లక్ష (te) ‎(lakṣa)
• Thai: หลัก (th) ‎(làk)
• Tulu: ಲಕ್ಷ ‎(lakṣa)
• Turkish: laka (tr)
• Urdu: لاکھ m ‎(lākh)
• Vietnamese: ức (vi)

See also

• crore
• mohur

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French

Noun

lakh m ‎(plural lakhs)

1. lakh