lakh
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From Hindustani लाख (lākh)/لاکھ (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).
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lakh (plural lakhs)
- (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong) One hundred thousand; 100,000. 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[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.
- 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain - West Indies
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one hundred thousand
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EtymologyEdit
From English lakh, from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa)
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lakh m (plural lakhs)