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karela

noun

karela is a noun meaning “Momordica charantia, the bitter melon or bitter gourd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-R-E-L-A, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of karela is karelas.

What does karela mean?

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaMomordica charantia, the bitter melon or bitter gourd.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of karela

  • karelas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is karela?

Karela appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does karela come from?

From Hindi करेला (karelā), from Sanskrit कारवेल्ल (kāravella).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).