lakhs

Noun

lakh (plural lakhs or lakh)

1. (Myanmar, South-Asia) One hundred thousand rupees.
   • 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...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; […]...
2. (Myanmar, South-Asia, figuratively) Often in the plural: an indefinitely large number; a zillion.
   • […] 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.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...

   Synonyms:

   babillion, bajillion, bazillion, billion, bizillion, dillion, fafillion, fucktillion, gabillion, gabrillion

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