lakh

English

Alternative forms

• lac

Etymology

From Urdu لاکھ, from 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”, Times of India:

     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” [1], 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: لاك (lāk)
• Assamese: লাখ (lākh)
• Bengali: লাখ, লক্ষ (lokkho)
• Burmese: သိန်း (my) (thein:)
• Chinese:

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

• Dhivehi: ލައްކަ (lakka)
• 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)
• Korean: 라크 (rakeu)
• Lao: ແສນ
• Malayalam: ലക്ഷം (ml) (lakṣam)
• Marathi: लाख (lākh), लक्ष (mr) (lakṣa)
• Nepali: लाख (lākh)
• Oriya: ଲକ୍ଷ (or) (lakṣa)

• Pashto: لک (lak)
• Persian: لک (fa) (lak)
• Polish: lakh 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 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