Crore

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A crore (Hindi: करोड़) (often abbreviated cr) is a unit in the Indian numbering system and was formerly a unit in the Persian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and formerly in Iran. An Indian crore is equal to 100 lakh or 10,000,000. An Iranian crore is half a million (500,000).

Large money amounts in India are often written in the form "Rs 23 cr", that is 230,000,000 rupees. Although lakhs are used in Sri Lanka, most Sri Lankans do not use the term crore when referring to money.

The word is used in the Indian title of the popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati - literally "Who will be a ten-millionaire?".

[edit] Etymology and regional variants

The word "crore" is derived from Sanskrit word कोटि koṭi, denoting "ten million" in the Indian numbering system, which has separate terms for all powers of ten from 10⁰ up to 10¹⁷, however it denotes "five hundred thousand" in the Persian numbering system. The crore is known by various regional names in modern languages, all derived from the Sanskrit word:

Indian languages

• Assamese: কোটি kûti
• Bengali: কোটি koṭi
  • Eastern Bengali dialects: কুটি kuṭi
• Gujarati: કરોડ karoḍ
• Hindi: करोड़ karoṛ
  • Mumbai slang: खोका khoka
• Kannada: ಕೋಟಿ koṭi
• Malayalam: കോടി kodi (often written koti)
• Marathi: कोटी koṭī
• Oriya: koṭi
• Sinhala koṭi
• Tamil: கோடி koṭi (often written kodi)
• Telugu: కోటీ koṭī
• Urdu: کروڑ karoṛ

Non-Indian languages

• Japanese: 倶胝 kutei
• Mandarin: 倶胝 jùzhī
• Persian: کرور korur

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• Lakh (= 0.01 crore)
• Indian numbering system
• Names of numbers in English
• Names of large numbers

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