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
- mountain climbing
- mountain clover
- mountain cock
- mountain cow
- mountain crab
- mountain cranberry
- mountain crystal
- mountain cure
- mountain currant
- mountain daisy
- mountain devil
- mountain dew
- mountain dock
- mountain duck
- mountain eagle
- mountain ebony
- mountained
- mountaineer
- mountaineering
- mountaine flax
- mountainette
- mountain everlasting
- mountain fastness
- mountain fern
- mountain fever