Momordica charantia
Alternative names
Bitter melon has many names in other languages, which have sometimes entered English as loanwords. Following are a few:

Momordica charantia

Section Title: Alternative names
Table Section Text: Bitter melon has many names in other languages, which have sometimes entered English as loanwords. Following are a few:

Language	Romanized	Script

Malayalam	Pavakka / Kaipakka	പാവയ്ക്ക / കൈപ്പയ്ക്ക

Urdu	karela	کریلا

Hindi	karela	करेला

Gujarati	karela	કારેલા

Punjabi	karela	ਕਰੇਲਾ

Haiti	asosi	asosi	Nepali	tite karela	तीते करेला

Telugu	kakara	కాకర

Kannada	hāgalakāyi	ಹಾಗಲಕಾಯಿ

Tamil	paagarkaai or pavakai	பாகற்காய்

Marathi	karle	कारले

Konkan (Goa)	karate	कारांतें

Bengali	karola	করলা

Sinhala (Sri Lanka)	karavila	කරවිල

Mandarin	kǔguā	苦瓜

Cantonese	loeng4gwaa1"	涼瓜

Korean	yeoju	여주

Japanese	nigauri	苦瓜

Okinawan	gōyā	ゴーヤー

Tagalog	ampalaya

Odia	kalara	କଲରା

Indonesian	perai or pare

Sranan Tongo	sopropo

Vietnamese	khổ qua

Thai	Mara Kheenok	มะระขี้นก

Myanmar	kyethinga	ကြက်ဟင်းခါး

Sentence(s)

Bitter melon is known as gōyā (ゴーヤー) in Okinawan and nigauri (苦瓜) in Japanese.

final_sentence: Bitter melon is known as gōyā (ゴーヤー) in Okinawan and nigauri (苦瓜) in Japanese.