# lakh

Pronunciation: say "LAHK" /lɑk/

## Numeral

1. One hundred thousand (100,000), written in Indian digit grouping as 1,00,000. *(Myanmar, South Asia)*
   - Simple: The number one hundred thousand, or 100,000.
   - _Voter rolls in the district list more than three lakh names._
   - _The charity distributed a lakh of meals during the flood relief._

## Noun

2. A sum of one hundred thousand rupees, used as a standard unit of money. *(Myanmar, South Asia)*
   - Simple: A sum of one hundred thousand rupees.
   - _The startup raised a few lakh from local investors in its first round._
   - _Her medical bills ran into several lakhs that year._
3. An indefinitely large number; a countless multitude. *(Myanmar, South Asia)*
   - Simple: A huge number, too big to count exactly.
   - _Lakhs of questions raced through his mind as he waited for the verdict._
   - _He owed a lakh of favors to the friends who helped him move._

## Origin

Borrowed from Hindustani lākh, from Sanskrit lakṣa, from a root meaning "to mark, observe, perceive," possibly linked to a root meaning "to guard or protect," and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- ("to protect").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/lakh (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).