See lakh in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J[ames] 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[oshua] Higginbotham, […], by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262:",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"word": "lakh"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "lākh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "લાખ"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "lākh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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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",
"word": "ಲಕ್ಷ"
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"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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"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sǣn",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ແສນ"
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"lang": "Malayalam",
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"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "lākh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "लक्ष"
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"code": "ne",
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"code": "or",
"lang": "Odia",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ଲକ୍ଷ"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "pa",
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"roman": "lakkha",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ਲੱਖ"
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"code": "pa",
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"roman": "lakkh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ᱞᱟᱠ"
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"code": "sat",
"lang": "Santali",
"roman": "lakh",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ᱞᱟᱠᱷ"
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"code": "si",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ලක්ෂය"
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"code": "sw",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "ta",
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"roman": "laṭcam",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "ilaṭcam",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "இலட்சம்"
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
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"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "หลัก"
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"code": "tcy",
"lang": "Tulu",
"roman": "lakṣa",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "ಲಕ್ಷ"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "one hundred thousand",
"word": "laka"
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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.",
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"text": "Who has not admired that noble speech of my Lord [Robert] Clive, when reproached on his return from India with making rather too free with jaghires, lakhs, gold mohurs, diamonds, pearls, and what not: \"Upon my life,\" said the hero of Plassy, \"when I think of my opportunities, I am surprised I took so little!\"",
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"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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"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; […]",
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