Word.ws English Dictionary

karanji

karanji noun: a sweet dumpling made with coconut.

Noun

karanji (plural karanjis)

  1. (India) A sweet dumpling made with coconut.
    • From scrumptious karanjis to ghee-laden anarsas and spiral chaklis, making sweets and savouries during Diwali has been a long-standing tradition.2012 November 13, Reema Gehi, “Mithai as health tonic”, in Times of India

Forms of karanji

pluralkaranjis

Origin of karanji

Borrowed from Marathi करंजी (karañjī).

Questions about karanji

What does karanji mean?
Karanji means a sweet dumpling made with coconut.
What part of speech is karanji?
Karanji is a noun.
What is the plural of karanji?
The plural of karanji is karanjis.

Words near karanji in the dictionary

  1. karangas
  2. Karangetang
  3. Karangi
  4. karanja
  5. Karanjas
  6. karanji
  7. karanjin
  8. karanjis
  9. Karankawa
  10. Karanko
  11. karanteen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: karanji (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “karanji.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/karanji. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.