over a lakh
- idiom
- Indian
:
más de un lakh
- He donated over a lakh rupees to the charity.
Examples
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The project cost over a lakh to complete.
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Each car in the fleet cost over a lakh.
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The damage was estimated to be over a lakh in losses.
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Wow! That watch costs over a lakh!
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He donated over a lakh rupees to the charity.
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Each car in the fleet cost over a lakh.
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The project cost over a lakh to complete.
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
over + a + lakh
If a learner knows the constituent words—'over' (more than), 'a' (indefinite article) and 'lakh' (100,000)—the meaning 'more than one hundred thousand' is directly and compositionally derivable. The phrase is region-specific in lexical content (lakh is South Asian) but the syntactic and semantic combination follows regular English quantifier + noun patterns, making it transparent to learners who know the parts.
Etymology
Over a lakh comes from the South Asian counting system, where a lakh means '100,000'. So saying over a lakh simply means 'more than 100,000', often when talking about money.