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لک

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? lak
Dari reading? lak
Iranian reading? lak
Tajik reading? lak

Etymology 1

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Related to the complex of لخت (laxt, piece, portion), see it for more.

Noun

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لک (lak)

  1. stain or spot on a fruit
Derived terms
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  • دل لک زدن (del lak zadan, to miss, to die for, to strongly want, literally for the heart to be stained)
  • لک زدن (lak zadan, to be stained, to be smudged)

Etymology 2

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Persian numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  100 [a], [b] ←  10,000 ۱۰۰۰۰۰
100,000
1,000,000 (106)  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: صد هزار (sad hazâr), لک (lak)

Borrowed from Hindustani लाख / لاکھ (lākh) or Punjabi ਲੱਖ (lakkh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).

Numeral

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لک (lak) (Persian numeral ۱۰۰۰۰۰)

  1. (Indo-Persian or Dari, money) lakh; hundred thousand
    • 1705, Guru Gobind Singh, “verse 19—20”, in ظفرنامه [Zafarnama]:
      گُرُسْنَه چِه کَارِی کُنَد چِهِل نَر
      کِه دَهْ لَک بَرْآیَد بَر او بی‌خَبَر
      کِه پَیْمَان‌شِکَسْت بی‌دَرَنْگ آمَدَنْد
      مِیَانِ تیغ و تِیر و تُفَنْگ آمَدَنْد
      gurusna či kārī kunad čihil nar
      ki dah lak bar-āyad bar ō bē-xabar
      ki paymān-šikast bē-darang āmadand
      miyān-i tēğ u tīr u tufang āmadand
      What can forty famished men do
      When ten lakh fall upon them without warning?
      For they came suddenly, breaking the oath,
      They came in the midst of blades and arrows and guns.
      (Mughal Persian)
Usage notes
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  • In Afghanistan, لک is most commonly used in reference to currency, elsewhere صد هزار (sad hazār) tends to be used instead. Though لک could technically be used to count anything, using it to count non-monetary items is uncommon.
  • When used in Afghanistan numbers are still grouped by thousands, and the Indian number grouping is never used (so it is written as ۱۰۰٬۰۰۰ (100,000) and never as ۱٬۰۰٬۰۰۰ (1,00,000)). The Indian number grouping may be seen in Mughal Persian, though.

Punjabi

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Verb

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لُک (luk)

  1. inflection of لُکݨا (lukṇā, to hide):
    1. stem
    2. second-person singular familiar imperative