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
- nickel plate
- nickel-plated
- nickel plating
- nickel silver
- nickel situation
- nickel-skutterudite
- nickel spinel
- nickel steel
- nickel–cadmium
- nickel–iron
- nicker
- nicker-pecker
- nicker-picker
- nicker-tree
- nickey
- nickie
- nicki-nicki
- Nicklaus, Jack William
- nick-nack
- nickname
- nicknamee
- nicknameless
- nicknamer
- nick-o-fidge
- nick point