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
- perseverator
- persevere
- perseveringly
- Pershing
- Pershing, John J.
- Pershing missile
- Persia
- Persian
- persiana
- Persian berry
- Persian blind
- Persian blue
- Persian buttercup
- Persian carpet
- Persian cat
- Persian cord
- Persian cyclamen
- Persian earth
- Persian fire
- Persian Gulf
- Persian insect powder
- Persian iris
- Persianist
- Persianization
- Persianized