Crore
Indian numbering system name for ten million
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Etymology and regional variants
The word crore derives from the Prakrit word kroḍi, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit koṭi (कोटि), denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100 up to 1019.
By language
- Assamese: ক্ৰোড় kroṛ
- Bengali: কোটি kōṭī (though some also use the word "ক্ৰোড়" kroṛ)
- Bhojpuri: कड़ो kaṛo
- Hindustani: (Hindi: करोड़, Urdu: کروڑ) kroṛ
- Dhivehi: ކޯރޯ kāroo
- Gujarati: કરોડ koṛo
- Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ kōṭi
- Kashmiri: کروڑ kroṛ
- Khasi: kro
- Malayalam: കോടി kōṭi
- Marathi: कोटी kōṭī
- Meitei: ꯀꯩꯡ kōṭi1
- Nepali: करोड kroṛ
- Odia: କୋଟି kōṭi
- Punjabi: (Shahmukhi:کروڑ Gurmukhi: ਕਰੋੜ)
- Sanskrit: कोटि kōṭi
- Sinhala: කෝටිය kōṭiya
- Tamil: கோடி kōṭi
- Telugu: కోటి kōṭi
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Money
Large amounts of money in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are often written in terms of crore. For example 150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million) rupees is written as "fifteen crore rupees", "₹ 15 crore". In the abbreviated form, usage such as "₹ 15 cr" is common.
Trillions (in the short scale) of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is equivalent to:
- ₹1 lakh crore
- ₹1012
- ₹10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation
- ₹1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation

