Crore

A crore (/ˈkrɔːr/; abbreviated cr) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to ten million (10,000,000; in scientific notation: 10⁷). It is widely used in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and is written in these regions as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators. It is equal to a hundred lakh (a lakh is equal to one hundred thousand and is written as 1,00,000).^[1]

Usage

Money

Large amounts of money in India are often written in terms of crores. For example, 100,000,000 (one hundred million) Indian rupees is written as 'ten crore rupees' or '₹10 crore' or 'Rs 10 crore'.^[1]

Trillions of ₹ 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 (1,00,000 × 1,00,00,000)

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

= Rs 1,000,000,000,000 in western notation

= Rs 1 trillion (short scale)

= Rs 1 billion (long scale)

= 10¹² rupees

lakh is also used in Sri Lanka, 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 derived from the Prakrit word krodi,^[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.

South Asian languages

Assamese: কোটি kûti, কৌটি kouti
Bengali: কোটি koṭi
Hindi: करोड़ karoṛ
Gujarati: કરોડ karoḍ
Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ koṭi
Konkani: कोटि koṭi or करोऱ karoṛ
Malayalam: കോടി koḍi (often written koti)
Marathi: कोटि koṭi
Nepali: करोड karoḍ
Odia: କୋଟି koṭi
Pāli: koṭi
Pashto: خبری korur
Punjabi: کروڑ - ਕਰੋੜ karoṛ (often written karor)
Template:Lang-sd kiroṛu
Sinhala කෝටිය koṭiya
Tamil: கோடி kōṭi
Telugu: కోటి kōṭi
Urdu: [کروڑ] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: ud (help) karor
Balochi: kaaroor

In other languages

Template:Lang-ar al-krūr ('ashra malāyyin)
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 use 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
Template:Lang-fa Krur / Korur
Tagalog: karora (archaic usage, also kotiha or kotiya). Sampúng milyón is normally used.
Thai: โกฏิ kot or kot̩i (from Pali koti, obsolete)

References

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

^ ^a ^b "Knowing our Numbers". Department Of School Education And Literacy. National Repository of Open Educational Resources. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
^ "Oxford English Dictionary". Retrieved 9 February 2011.

[nroer-1] "Knowing our Numbers". Department Of School Education And Literacy. National Repository of Open Educational Resources. Retrieved 13 February 2016.

[2] "Oxford English Dictionary". Retrieved 9 February 2011.

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