crore

Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹoɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /kɹo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /kɹoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: craw (non-rhotic)

crore (plural crore or crores)

1. (India, Pakistan) ten million; 10,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000. Often used with units of money.

   Following the ban, the government stands to lose ₹30 crore annually, sources said.

   (India Times, 2nd July 2003)

   The population of Gujarat is 3.39 crores.

There seems to be no standard way of abbreviating crore. The Indian press uses Cr, cr, Cr. and cr. interchangeably, however it is predominantly spelt unabbreviated.

• lakh
• ₹

• kror, krore

• “crore”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• corer

Inherited from Old French croire, from Latin crēdere.

• IPA^(key): /kror/

crore

1. (Troyen) to believe

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes