lakh

• lac

Borrowed from Hindustani लाख / لاکھ‎ (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /læk/
• (India) IPA^(key): /lɑːkʰ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk, -æk

lakh (plural lakhs)

1. (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) One hundred thousand; 100,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000. 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:

     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” , 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.

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• Kahl

From English lakh, from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).

• IPA^(key): /lak/

lakh m (plural lakhs)

1. lakh