Lakh

Quick meaning: Lakh is a numeral meaning One hundred thousand (10⁵): 100,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000.

Meaning

One hundred thousand (10⁵): 100,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000.

More Meanings

1. One hundred thousand rupees.
2. (figurative) Often in the plural: an indefinitely large number; a zillion.

Example Sentences

Holonym: crore

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.

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.

[T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas [a unit of currency]; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]

Word Forms

• lakhs

Synonyms for lakh

Depending on context, synonyms include babillion, bajillion, bazillion, billion, bizillion, dillion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hectares, lac, lack, rupees, tonnes, crore.

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