Crore

A crore (; abbreviated cr) is a quantity of ten million (10,000,000 or 107) in the Indian numbering system, equal to 100 lakh. In the Indian convention of digit grouping, it is formatted 1,00,00,000. The crore is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The next named numbers after it are arab (a billion), and kharab (a hundred billion), although they are not widely used in the modern-day Indian subcontinent.

Etymology and regional variants

The word crore derives from the Prakrit word , which in turn comes from the Sanskrit (),Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed., 1893, s.v. 'crore' denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100 up to 1019.

By language

Assamese: ক্ৰোড় kroṛ Bengali: কোটি kōṭī (though some also use the word "ক্ৰোড়" kroṛ) Bhojpuri: कड़ो kaṛo Hindustani: (Hindi: करोड़, Urdu: کروڑ) kroṛ Dhivehi: ކޯރޯ kāroo Gujarati: કરોડ koṛo Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ kōṭi Kashmiri: کروڑ kroṛ Khasi: kro Malayalam: കോടി kōṭi Marathi: कोटी kōṭī Meitei: ꯀꯩꯡ kōṭi1 Nepali: करोड kroṛ Odia: କୋଟି kōṭi Punjabi: (Shahmukhi:کروڑ Gurmukhi: ਕਰੋੜ) Sanskrit: कोटि kōṭi Sinhala: කෝටිය kōṭiya Tamil: கோடி kōṭi Telugu: కోటి kōṭi

Money Large amounts of money in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are often written in terms of crore. For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen crore rupees", " 15 crore". In the abbreviated form, usage such as " 15 cr" is common.

Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is equivalent to:

1 lakh crore 1012 10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation 1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation

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