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A lakh (Hindi/Nepali : लाख, Urdu: لکھ, Bengali: লাখ, Telugu : లక్ష, Tamil : இலட்சம்) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan. It was transliterated in Chinese Buddhism works as 洛叉 (Mandarin: luòchā, Japanese: rakusha). One lakh is equal to a hundred thousand (10⁵). A hundred lakhs make a crore or ten million. The word is particularly notable because it is used almost exclusively in English language articles written for Indian audiences (as opposed to writing "hundred thousand"). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Hindi (DevanāgarÄ«: or , IAST: , IPA:  ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the 22 official languages of India and is used, along with English, for central government administrative purposes. ... Nepali (Khaskura) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Myanmar (Burma). ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Bangla redirects here. ... “Telugu” redirects here. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... The traditional, ancient Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Nepal and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China, Korea, and Japan, for instance, use 4). ... A statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha in Tawang Gompa, India. ... Map of eastern China and Taiwan, showing the historic distribution of Mandarin Chinese in light brown. ... One hundred thousand (100000) is the natural number following 99999 and preceding 100001. ... A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

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, 3 million (30 lakh) would be written as 30,00,000 instead of 3,000,000. Look up million in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The Mumbai underworld slang for Lakh is peti. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... For other uses, see Slang (disambiguation). ...

Equivalent spellings of the word in English are lac and plural forms lacs, lakhs. Variants of the word are laksha in Telugu and Kannada, lectcham in Tamil or laksham in Malayalam. The variant laksha should not be confused with "lakshya", which means goal. “Telugu” redirects here. ... “Kannada” redirects here. ... Tamil ( ; IPA ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. ... Malayalam (മലയാളം ) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. ...

Among Bengali Vaishnavas, "one lakh" is the customary daily quota of harināma-japa (chanting lord Hari's names) [1]. Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (Bengal) Vaishnavism, is a sect of Hinduism founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. ... Hari (Sanskrit: हरि) is another name of Vishnu or God in Vaishnavism, Smarta or Advaitan Hinduism, and appears as the 650th name in the Vishnu sahasranama. ...

The word lakh (and its variants) are derived from Sanskrit word laksha. Laksha denoted hundred thousand in the ancient Indian numbering system which has separate terms for all powers of ten from 10⁰ till 10¹⁷. The traditional, ancient Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Nepal and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China, Korea, and Japan, for instance, use 4). ...

See also

• Crore (= 100 lakh)
• Names of numbers in English
• Names of large numbers