Crore

A crore (/ˈkrɔər/; abbreviated cr) or koti denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 10⁷ in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in Hindi and Urdu, and is written in the Indian numbering system as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators (a lakh is equal to one hundred thousand and is written as 1,00,000).^[1]

Money

Large amounts of money in Nepal and North India are often written in terms of crores. For example, 150,000,000 (one hundred fifty million) is written as 'fifteen crore rupees', '15crore' or 'Rs 15 crore'.^[1]

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

= One lakh crore rupees

= ₹1 lakh crore

= Rs 1 lakh crore

= Rs 10⁵⁺⁷

= Rs 10¹²

= Rs 10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation

= Rs 1,000,000,000,000 in Western notation

Lakh is also used in Sri Lanka; however, most Sri Lankans use the term koatiya (කෝටිය) or koti (கோடி) for crore when referring to money.

Etymology and regional variants

The word crore is a borrowing from Urdu kărōṛ, krōṛ, from the Prakrit kroḍi, is in turn from the Sanskrit koṭi,^[2] denoting ten million in the Indian numbering system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 10⁰ up to 10¹⁹. The crore is known by various regional names.

Indo-Aryan Languages

• Assamese: কোটি kûti, কৌটি kouti
• Bengali: কোটি ko̊ŧi
• Hindi: करोड़ karoṛ
• Gujarati: કરોડ karoḍ
• Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ koṭi
• Konkani: कोटि koṭi or करोऱ karoṛ
• Malayalam: കോടി koḍi (often written kodi)
• Marathi: कोटि koṭi
• Nepali: करोड karoḍ
• Odia: କୋଟି koṭi
• Pāli: koṭi
• Punjabi: کروڑ - ਕਰੋੜ karoṛ (often written karor)
• Sindhi: ڪروڙ‎ kiroṛu
• Sinhala කෝටිය koṭiya
• Tamil: கோடி kōṭi
• Telugu: కోటి kōṭi
• Urdu: کروڑ karoṛ

In other languages

• Burmese: ကုဋေ [ɡədè] (increasingly archaic)
• Chinese: 克若爾 or 克若尔 kèruò’ěr; 俱胝 jùzhī in Chinese Buddhist texts, but 一千萬 or 一千万 yī qiānwàn ("a thousand myriad") is used in ordinary contexts
• Japanese: クロー kurō, but 千万 senman ("thousand myriad") is normally used. See article on Japanese numerals.
• Kapampangan: katâ / kata-katâ
• Pashto: کروړ korur
• Persian: کرور‎‎ Krur / Korur
• Tagalog: karora (archaic usage, also kotiha or kotiya). Sampúng milyón is normally used.
• Thai: โกฏิ kot or kot̩i (from Pali koti, obsolete)

See also

• Myriad (10,000)
• Names of large numbers
• Names of numbers in English
• Bollywood 100 Crore Club

References

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Crore". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.