Crore

A crore (pron.: /ˈkrɔər/; abbreviated cr) is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to ten million (10,000,000; Scientific notation: 10⁷), which is written as 1,00,00,000, equal to a hundred lakh (1,00,000). It is widely used in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Usage

Money

Large amounts of money in India are often written in the form 23cr, that is 23,00,00,000 or 230,000,000 rupees.

Very large amounts of money are often written or spoken in terms of lakh crore.

For example, one lakh crore rupees

= 1 lakh cr

= Rs1 lakh cr

= Rs1×(1,00,000 × 1,00,00,000)

= Rs10,00,00,00,00,000

= Rs1 trillion (short scale)

= Rs1,000,000,000,000 in Western notation

= 10¹² rupees.

Although lakh is used in Sri Lanka, most Sri Lankans do not use the term crore when referring to money, but they use the word koatiya (කෝටිය) or koti (கோடி) to indicate 100 lakh, or ten million, the same as a crore.

Etymology and regional variants

The word crore is derived from the Prakrit word krodi, 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 in modern languages, all derived from the Sanskrit word कोटि koṭi.

South Asian languages

See also: Languages of India, Languages of Bangladesh, Languages of Pakistan, and Languages of Sri Lanka

• Assamese: কোটি kûti, কৌটি kouti
• Bengali: কোটি koṭi
• Hindi: करोड़ kroṛ or karoṛ
• Gujarati: કરોડ karoḍ
• Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ koṭi
• Konkani: कोटि koṭi or करोऱ karoṛ
• Malayalam: കോടി koḍi (often written koti)
• Marathi: कोटि koṭi, slang = khokā (which in Marathi means a 'huge box'): that is the amount of money in Rs. 100 notes that can fit into a khoka.)
• Oriya: କୋଟି koṭi
• Pashto: خبری korur
• Punjabi: کروڑ/ਕਰੋੜ karoṛ (often written karor)
• Sindhi: kiroṛu
• Sinhala කෝටිය koṭiya
• Tamil: கோடி koṭi
• Telugu: కోటీ koṭī
• Urdu: کروڑ karoṛ

In other languages

• Arabic: الكرور عشرة ملايين al-krūr ('ashra malāyyin)
• Burmese: ကုဋေ [ɡədè] (increasingly archaic)
• Chinese: 克若爾 or 克若尔 kèruò’ěr; 俱胝 jùzhī in Buddhist texts; 一千萬 or 一千万 yī qiānwàn in ordinary Standard Mandarin
• Japanese: クロー kurō (but 千万 senman is normally used)
• Latin: crorum / crorem
• Persian: خبری khbri
• Tagalog: karora (archaic usage; also kotiha or kotiya. Sampúng milyón is normally used)
• Thai: โกฏิ kot or kot̩i (from Pali koti, obsolete)

See also

• Names of numbers in English
• Names of large numbers
• Myriad (10,000)

References

• Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition s.v. crore full text of article
• Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. crore