- a resinous substance secreted by various scale insects, esp. a species (Laccifer lacca) of India, that live on certain fig, soapberry, and acacia trees: when melted, strained, and rehardened, it forms shellac
- alt. sp. of lakh
Origin of lac
Hindi l?kh from Sanskrit l?k??, variant, variety of r?k??, probably from Indo-European base an unverified form reg-, to color (from source Classical Greek regma, colored material); in part via French laque from Old Provençal laca from Arabic lakk from Persian lak, of same origin, originally
