Crore

Crore ( Hindi करोड़ Karor [ kʌro ː ɽ ] ) is the number of South Asian word for " ten million ". Variants of the word are found in most South Asian languages ​​. In Indian English, the word number is used crore and almost always replaced, along with lakh (100,000), the European concepts million and billion. A country with 500 million inhabitants, has after this manner of speech " 50 crore inhabitants". In particular, large sums of money are expressed in India Crore (abbreviated cr, so Rs 17 cr = 170 million rupees ); As the title of the Hindi version of the TV program is Millionaire? Kaun Banega Crorepati ( "Who will Crore owners "). The use of lakh and crore causes the digit grouping accordingly from the usual in European languages ​​differs: How to write " 50,00,00,000 " for 50 Crore = 500 million.

In Sri Lanka, the terms " million" and " billion" with lakh, but not used with crore.

Until a few decades ago the unit crore was also used in Iran, where they described the numerical value of 500,000.

Origin

The word crore comes from the Sanskrit word कोटि from Koti. The forms with r as Punjabi or Hindi Kror Karor are hyper proper education, which is a putative kr- initial sound of Sanskrit (which would be in the following languages ​​to become k- regular ) reproduce.

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