I hear people say this in TZ. What does this mean
It’s indian for 100,000. Lakh
100,000…
A quantity.
Elfu mia moja. Ukiskia ghaseer ikisema nina shiling laki moja it means ako na 100,000 shillings. 1 Lakh contains 100,000 units. It can be confusing especially when said in multiples. For instance, laki kumi ni 1 million (10 x 100,000) so whatever amount the person mentions before/after laki, you multiply by 100,000.
100,000 not necessarily money.
People,
Cows,
Magunia
Anything countable
Thanks guys
What’s worse is when Indians use it on quora for costs and they don’t write a currency, but they generally are talking in rupees. Not only do you have to convert the lakh, you then have to convert the currency, with an assumption that it is rupees. I don’t like the USD, but for petes sake, when the audience/readership is going to be international just use a currency everyone else can easily and quickly convert.
Or if you want to use your local currency, whether cause you are proud, ignorant, or just too narrow-minded to think in the bigger picture, then atleast quote the currency.
It used to drive me mad when am researching costs and someone just says ohh that costs xy lakh.
Indians have a funny mentality, on YouTube they post a video with a English language title only for you to find the video itself he/she is talking Hindu. Funny the comments are in English, very annoying
Exactly! Wueh kwanza tech, maths etc videos
Then hata in a foreign country, someone is advertising their house and they write it’s a 2HBK house or whatever the fuck lingo they use. I’m like wtf dude. You are not India! What the fuck is 2HBK?
Indians enyewe are full of shiit especially where currency is concerned. They try too hard to project themselves as a major power when it’s just not the case. Another one I hear whenever I come across Indian news is Crore, which apparently means ten million units or 100 lakhs. So when they say 2.5 crore they mean 25 million. Confusing stuff.
Nilizoea lakh. Crore outright infuriates me coz i keep forgetting the units bana.
1= moja
10 = kumi
100 = Mia
1,000 = elfu
100,000 = laki (lakh)
1,000,000 = million
1,000,000,000 = billion
1,000,000,000,000 = trillion
In kenya we quote prices in millions, in India they quote in lakhs.
2BHK means 2 bdrm, 1 Hall (sitting room), 1 kitchen, house. In kenya we say 2brm and assume sitting and kitchen are obvious.
it’s a lot more complicated than that when we factor in different countries, but for Kenya this is enough
When I learnt what it means, naturally my first question was, do they have houses with no Kitchen or what?
Yes. That naming system is used to distinguish from bedsitters and single rooms.
So do they have 2 bedroomed houses with a hall but no Kitchen?
Also @johnpombe when in a foreign country, why not just advertise how your host country advertises?
If a German came to Kenya and advertised a house as unfurnished with the German meaning of unfurnished. You’d all faint when you got there.
It’s normal in Germany. It’s not normal anywhere else, so they don’t do it.
Most villagers wako hapa mdau
If you told a German you are a billionaire, they’d likely figure out what you mean but think you are ignorant.
What we call a billion is actually not a billion but simply 1000 millions. Most of Europe call that a Milliard.
A billion would actually mean a million^2. So what we call a trillion, europe (except UK of course) calls a billion.
Europes counting is more accurate but Americans and Brits like shortening everything for convenience.