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South Asia's way of saying 100,000 without making you count the zeros.
means A unit equal to one hundred thousand, written as 1,00,000 in the South Asian numbering system and used constantly in everyday counting of money, population, and prices.
from From Sanskrit 'lakṣa,' meaning a mark or a large number (literally something like 'one hundred thousand'), passing through Hindi and other South Asian languages into English during the British colonial period in India, when administrators and traders needed a word for sums too large to casually rattle off in thousands. It survives today in Indian English and in the distinctive lakh-crore numbering style, which groups digits as 1,00,000 rather than 100,000.
- spelling
- 1,00,000 not 100,000, different comma logic
- origin
- from Sanskrit laksha, meaning mark or token
- next level
- 100 lakh equals one crore
- everyday use
- salaries, real estate, dowries quoted in lakhs