लष

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Old Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa लक्ख (lakkha), from Prakrit लक्ख (lakkha), from Sanskrit ल॒क्ष (lakṣá).[1]

Cognates

Cognate with Old Punjabi ਲਖੁ (lakhu /⁠lakkhu⁠/), ਲਾਖੁ (lākhu), Old Marathi 𑘩𑘏 (lakha), 𑘩𑘰𑘏 (lākha), Middle Gujarati लख, Middle Bengali লাখ (lakh).

Numeral

लष (laṣa /lakh/) (cardinal number)[2][3]

  1. lakh
    • c. 1420, Kabīr, Kabīr Vāṇī 152.3:
      एक लष पुत सवा लष नांती ।
      ता रावण धरि दिवा न बाती ॥३॥
      eka laṣa puta savā laṣa nāṃtī.
      tā rāvaṇa dhari divā na bātī.3.
      /eka lakha puta savā lakha nā̃tī .
      tā rāvaṇa dhari divā na bātī.3.      /
      • 1972 translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
        A lakh sons and one and a quarter lakh grandsons;
        But in that house of Ravana, the lamps and wicks have gone out.

Alternative forms

References

More information
  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lakṣá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 629
  2. ^ Winand M. Callewaert, Swapna Sharma (2009) Dictionary of Bhakti, Ramesh Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi 110 015: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 1845, column 1.
  3. ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 562
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