lakh
/lak
/ /lɑːk /(also lac)
noun (plural lakhs, same) Indian
A hundred thousand: they fixed the price at five lakhs of rupees...
- If you calculate the whole thing then this graft works out to thousands and lakhs of rupees.
- This minor aberration had made Kachori richer by a few hundred lakhs.
- Two hundred lakhs have been given to Kandy and two hundred and fifty lakhs to develop Kalutara and Ratnapura.
Origin
Via Hindi from Sanskrit lakṣa.
Rhymes
- passival
- passivate
- passivation
- passivation layer
- passivator
- passive
- passive-aggressive
- passive commerce
- passive debt
- passive-dependent
- passive euthanasia
- passive immunity
- passively
- passive matrix
- passiveness
- passive obedience
- passive prayer
- passive rate
- passive representation
- passive-resist
- passive resistance
- passive-resistant
- passive-resister
- passive restraint
- passive smoke