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
- old man cactus
- old man kangaroo
- old-mannish
- Old Man of the Mountain
- Old Man of the Mountains
- old man of the woods
- old man roo
- old man saltbush
- old man's beard
- old man schnapper
- old man snapper
- Old Man Winter
- old master
- old-masterish
- old-masterly
- old media
- old money
- old moneyed
- old moon
- Old Ned
- oldness
- old news
- Old Nick
- Old Norse
- Old North Church