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rasgulla

noun

rasgulla is a noun meaning “A South Asian dessert made from chhena dumplings in a sugar syrup” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-S-G-U-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rasgulla is rasgullas.

What does rasgulla mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A South Asian dessert made from chhena dumplings in a sugar syrup.

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

Forms of rasgulla

  • rasgullas plural
  • rasagola
  • rasagolla
  • rasagulla
  • rasgula
  • rasogolla
  • rasogulla
  • rosogolla
  • roshogolla
  • rossogolla

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

How common is rasgulla?

Rasgulla appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 rasgulla come from?

Transliteration of Hindi रसगुल्ला (rasgullā), from Calque of Bengali রসগোল্লা (rośogōlla).

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