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
- arthralgia
- arthritic
- arthritical
- arthritically
- arthritis
- arthritism
- arthro-
- arthrobranch
- arthrobranchia
- arthrodesis
- arthrodia
- arthrodial
- arthrodial membrane
- arthrodiran
- arthrodire
- arthrodium
- arthrodynia
- arthrogram
- arthrography
- arthrogryposis
- arthrologia
- arthrology
- arthrometer
- arthrometry
- arthropathic