lakh

Examples

• All

• The scholarship is worth five lakh rupees for eligible students.

• I want to bet five lakh rupees he'll make a century.

  Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

• There are eight lakh soldiers.

  Academic text (2009)

• You said Congress spent 20 lakhs?

  Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000)

• But no such appeal is made to the private sector companies that are sitting on massive hoarded cash estimated to be more than 9 lakh.

  Blog text (16)

• We have spent not less than 20 lakhs on the upliftment of the untouchables.

  Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000)

• Students whose family income is greater than 10 lakh per annum constitute 9.4% of them and belong to the high-income group.

  Academic text (2018)

• Students whose family income lies in the range of 4 to 8 lakh per annum accounted for 43.5% and belong to the middle-income group.

  Academic text (2018)

• Students whose family income is below 4 lakh per annum constituted 47.5% and belong to the low-income group.

  Academic text (2018)

• The new apartment costs ten lakh rupees in total.

Synonyms

1

100000

vslakh

492 1.0

A number equal to one hundred thousand

is the word name used in South Asia rather than digit form

H

hundred thousand

vslakh

1 1.0

The number equal to 100,000

is the regional unit name used in South Asia for that quantity

Idioms

O

over a lakh

• Indian

9.0

An amount greater than one hundred thousand, usually for money in South Asia

How Many

million

• Informal

417 1.0

over a lakh

• Indian

9.0

lakh

• Indian

2 9.9

Surface Forms

Etymology