{{Short description|Indian numbering system name for ten million}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

'''Crore''' ({{IPAc-en|k|r|ɔər}}; abbreviated '''cr''') denotes the quantity ten million (10<sup>7</sup>) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. In many international contexts, the decimal quantity is formatted as 10,000,000, but when used in the context of the Indian numbering system, the quantity is usually formatted 1,00,00,000<!--**DO NOT CHANGE COMMA FORMATTING**-->.<ref name="nroer">{{cite web |title=Knowing our Numbers |url=http://nroer.gov.in/nroer_team/file/readDoc/55b23f2881fccb054b6be25f/ |website=Department of School Education And Literacy |publisher=National Repository of Open Educational Resources |access-date=13 February 2016 |archive-date=16 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216163129/http://nroer.gov.in/nroer_team/file/readDoc/55b23f2881fccb054b6be25f/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Crore is widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. The next named numbers after it are ''arab'' (a billion), and ''kharab'' (a hundred billion), although they are not widely used in the modern-day Indian subcontinent.

== Etymology and regional variants ==

The word ''crore'' derives from the Prakrit word {{Transliteration|pra|kroḍi}}, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit {{Transliteration|sa|koṭi}} ({{Lang|sa|कोटि}}),<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed., 1893, ''s.v.'' 'crore'</ref> denoting ten million in the Indian number system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 10<sup>0</sup> up to 10<sup>19</sup>.

'''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

==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", "{{INR}} 15&nbsp;crore".<ref name="nroer" /> In the abbreviated form, usage such as "{{INR}} 15 cr" is common.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Posamentier |first1=Alfred S. |last2=Poole |first2=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmPcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA478 |title=Understanding Mathematics Through Problem Solving |date=2020-03-23 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-4663-69-4 }}</ref>

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:

* {{Indian Rupees}}1&nbsp;lakh crore * {{Indian Rupees}}10<sup>12</sup> * {{Indian Rupees}}10,00,00,00,00,000 in Indian notation * {{Indian Rupees}}1,000,000,000,000 in metric notation

== See also == {{Wiktionary|crore}} {{div col}} <!-- PLEASE RESPECT ALPHABETICAL ORDER. --> * English numerals * Hebdo- * Myriad (10,000) * Names of large numbers {{end div col}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==Sources== * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Crore}} * {{Merriam-Webster|Crore}}

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