- Lakh
A lakh (also written lac, and lackh in an Indian english language news source, India PR Wire, 8 Oct '08) is a unit in the
Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; 105). It is widely used both in official and other contexts inBangladesh ,India ,Nepal ,Sri Lanka ,Myanmar andPakistan , and is often used inIndian English .This system of measurement also introduces separators into numbers in a place that is different from that which is common in certain other number systems. For example, 30 lakh, which is to say 3
million , would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000. In this system of counting, a hundred lakhs make acrore , which is ten million.In India, one lakh is written as 1,00,000. In most other parts of the world, the comma appears every three positions, so a lakh would usually be written as 100,000 outside India.
In India, the first comma appears after three places, but after every two places thereafter.
Examples of the Indian comma system: 12,12,12,123 5,05,000 7,00,00,00,000.
The same examples in the Western system: 121,212,123 505,000 7,000,000,000
Etymology and regional variants
The lakh is known by various regional names in modern languages, all derived from the Sanskrit word लक्ष "unicode|lakṣa" "hundred thousand":
*Assamese: লাখ "lakh"
*Bengali: লাখ "lakh" or লক্ষ "lokkho"
*Gujarati: લાખ "lākh"
*Hindi लाख "lākh"
*Japanese: 洛叉 "rakusha"
*Kannada: ಲಕ್ಷ "unicode|lakṣa"
*Malayalam: ലക്ഷം "unicode|lakṣam"
*Mandarin: 洛叉 "luòchā"
*Marathi: लाख "lākh" or लक्ष "unicode|lakṣa"
*Nepali: लाख "lākh"
*Pashto: لک "lakh"
*Punjabi: ਲੱਖ "lākh"
*Swahili: laki or lakhi
*Tamil : இலட்சம் "unicode|laṭcham"
*Telugu: లక్ష "unicode|lakṣa"
*Urdu : لکھ "lakh" or "natasha"ee also
*
Crore (= 100 lakh)
*Names of numbers in English
*Names of large numbers
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