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"of lakhs per annum"
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"ref": "1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J. Talboys Wheeler, compiler, “Governorship of Mr. Nathaniel Higginson. 1692–1698.”, in Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham. 1639–1702. […], Madras: […] J. Higginbotham, […], by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262",
"text": "[T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas [a unit of currency]; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]",
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"ref": "1972, Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1998, page 18",
"text": "[S]he had gone out to India to keep house for her expensive, raffish father, and she had lived there in splendid style even after her marriage to a penniless young man, her father's aide-de-camp, […] But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.",
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"ref": "2012 November 13, Neeraj Chauhan, Dwaipayan Ghosh, “Couple from Maharashtra held for Rs 1,100 crore stock scam”, in The Times of India, Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Times Group, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-22",
"text": "After a hunt lasting more than a year-and-a-half, police have arrested a couple for duping around 2 lakh people in one of India's biggest investment frauds involving an estimated Rs 1,100 crore.",
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"ref": "2013 January 3, N. Gopal Raj, “Polio free does not mean paralysis free”, in The Hindu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: THG Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-01-05",
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"One hundred thousand (100,000; or, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000)."
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "lāk",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "لَاك"
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"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "lakh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "lakh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "লাখ"
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "lokkho",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "লক্ষ"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lākè",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "拉克"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "luòchā",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "洛叉"
},
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"code": "dv",
"lang": "Dhivehi",
"roman": "lakka",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ލައްކަ"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "lākh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"roman": "lākh",
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},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rāku",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ラーク"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rakusha",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "洛叉"
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"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "lakṣa",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "leak",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "លក្ខ"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "rakeu",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "라크"
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "lek",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "لەک"
},
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"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sǣn",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ແສນ"
},
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"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "lakṣaṁ",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ലക്ഷം"
},
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"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "lākh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "लाख"
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"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "lākh",
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"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
"roman": "lôkṣô",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ଲକ୍ଷ"
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"code": "ps",
"lang": "Pashto",
"roman": "lak",
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "lak",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"tags": [
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"word": "laque"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"word": "lequessá"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "lakkha",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ਲੱਖ"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "lakkh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"roman": "lak",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"word": "лак"
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"roman": "lakx",
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"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
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"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "lak",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ᱞᱟᱠ"
},
{
"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "lakh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ᱞᱟᱠᱷ"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"tags": [
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"word": "ла̏к"
},
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"tags": [
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"word": "lȁk"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "lakṣaya",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ලක්ෂය"
},
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "laki"
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"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "lakhi"
},
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"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "laṭcam",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "லட்சம்"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "ilaṭcam",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "இலட்சம்"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "lakṣa",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "లక్ష"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "làk",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "หลัก"
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"code": "tcy",
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"roman": "lakṣa",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ಲಕ್ಷ"
},
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "laka"
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{
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"ref": "1804, R[obert] Montgomery Martin, quoting Yashwantrao Holkar, “Section II. European Intercourse—Rise and Growth of British Power.”, in The Indian Empire: […], volume I (History, Topography, Population, Government, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products), London; New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, published [1858], →OCLC, page 399, column 2",
"text": "[…] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.",
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"tr": "lākh"
},
"expansion": "لاکھ (lākh)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sa",
"3": "लक्ष"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "लक्ष्",
"t": "to mark; to sign; to observe, perceive"
},
"expansion": "लक्ष् (lakṣ, “to mark; to sign; to observe, perceive”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "रक्ष्",
"t": "to observe (a duty, law, etc.); to guard, protect"
},
"expansion": "रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to observe (a duty, law, etc.); to guard, protect”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂lek-",
"t": "to protect"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
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"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
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"ref": "1615 September, Thomas Coryat, “[Coryats Letters.] From the Court of the Great Mogul, Resident at the Towne of Asinere in the Eastern India, on Michaelmas Day. Anno 1615.”, in Coryat’s Crudities; […] To which are Now Added, His Letters from India, &c. […], volume III, London: […] W. Cater, […]; J. Wilkie, […]; and E. Easton, […], published 1776, →OCLC, pages 158–159",
"text": "Since my arriual heere, there vvas ſent vnto this King one of the richeſt preſents that I haue heard to be ſent to any Prince in all my life time: […] the vvhole Preſent vvas vvorth ten of their Leakes, as they call them; a Leak being ten thouſand pound ſterling: the vvhole, a hundred thouſand pounds ſterling.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"One hundred thousand rupees."
],
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"One",
"one#Numeral"
],
[
"hundred",
"hundred#Numeral"
],
[
"thousand",
"thousand"
],
[
"rupee",
"rupee"
]
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"tags": [
"South-Asia"
]
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"ref": "1804, R[obert] Montgomery Martin, quoting Yashwantrao Holkar, “Section II. European Intercourse—Rise and Growth of British Power.”, in The Indian Empire: […], volume I (History, Topography, Population, Government, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products), London; New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, published [1858], →OCLC, page 399, column 2",
"text": "[…] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1878 August, “Contemporary Portraits. New Series.—No. 8. Charles Darwin, F.R.S.”, in The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, volume II, London: Hurst & Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 154",
"text": "The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the \"lac of islands\" and the \"thousand islands,\" are a series of such atolls; […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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[
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"indefinitely"
],
[
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],
[
"number",
"number#Noun"
],
[
"zillion",
"zillion"
]
],
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],
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{
"word": "zillion"
}
],
"tags": [
"South-Asia",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/lɑːk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/læk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɑk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/læk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɑːkʰ/",
"tags": [
"Indian-English"
]
},
{
"homophone": "lark (RP)"
},
{
"homophone": "lack"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːk"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æk"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-us-lack.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "lac"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one hundred thousand rupees",
"word": "lakh"
}
],
"word": "lakh"
}
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"1": "loanword",
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"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "lakh",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English lakh",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "lakh"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English lakh",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "hi",
"3": "लाख"
},
"expansion": "Hindi लाख (lākh)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "sa",
"3": "लक्ष"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
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{
"form": "lakhs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
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"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
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"French terms derived from English",
"French terms derived from Hindi",
"French terms derived from Sanskrit",
"French terms spelled with K",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation"
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[
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"lakh#English"
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],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/lak/"
}
],
"word": "lakh"
}
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