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
- thankfulness
- thank God
- thank goodness (or God or heavens)
- thankless
- thanklessly
- thanklessness
- thank-offering
- thank one's lucky stars
- thanks
- thanks a bunch
- thanks a lot
- thanks a million
- thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Day
- thank someone kindly
- thanks to
- thank you
- thank your mother for the rabbits
- Thant, U
- thanx
- thar
- Thar Desert
- Tharp, Twyla
- that
- thataway