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karaila

karaila is the alternative form of karela.

Meaning of karela

Noun

karela (countable and uncountable, plural karelas)

  1. (India) Momordica charantia, the bitter melon or bitter gourd.
    • The roofs shall fade before it,
      The house-beams shall fall,
      And the Karela, the bitter Karela,
      Shall cover it all!1895, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book

Forms of karaila

pluralkarailas

Questions about karaila

What is karaila the alternative form of?
Karaila is the alternative form of karela.

Words near karaila in the dictionary

  1. karahi
  2. karahis
  3. Karai
  4. Karai-Karai
  5. Karaikal
  6. karaila
  7. karailas
  8. Karaim
  9. Karaims
  10. Karaism
  11. karait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: karaila (page history and authors); karela (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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