what is ampalaya in english?

give its latin translation Momordica Charantia

pls vote if dats right!

Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most bitter of all vegetables. English names for the plant and its fruit include bitter melon or bitter gourd (translated from ). The original home of the species is not known, other than that it is a native of the tropics. It is widely grown in India (Karela करेला in Hindi), South Asia, The Philippines, Southeast Asia, China, Africa and the Caribbean.

Names in other languages

Austronesian languages

* Chavacano:amargozo

* Ilocano: pariya

* Malay and Indonesian: peria, pare, or parai

* Tagalog:ampalaya

Dravidian languages

* Kannada: hāgala kāyi

* Malayalam: kaipakka or pavakkya

* Tamil: parikkai or pavakka

* Telugu: kākara kāyi

Indic languages

* Bengali: করল্লা kôrolla

* Gujarati: કારેલું kāreluṃ

* Hindi/Urdu: करेला ﻛﹷﺮﻳﻼ karelā

* Marathi: कारले karla

* Punjabi: karaila

* Sinhalese: karawila

* Trinidad Hindi: karailī

Japonic languages

* Japanese: nigauri , tsurureishi , usually gōya

* Okinawan: gōyā

Sino-Tibetan languages

* Mandarin: 苦瓜 kǔ guā

* Taiwanese: 苦瓜 ”ko guai’

* Burmese: kyethinkhathee

Other languages

* Arabic: Hanzal

* Portuguese: melão-de-são-caetano

* Thai: มะระจีน marajin or มะระ mara

* Vietnamese: khổ qua

bitter melon

Indic languages

Bengali: করল্লা kôrolla

Gujarati: કારેલું kāreluṃ

Hindi/Urdu: करेला ﻛﹷﺮﻳﻼ karelā

Marathi: कारले karla

Konkani: kārate

Punjabi: karaila

Sinhalese: karawila

Trinidad Hindi: karailī

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Bitter gourd

bitter melon

bitter gourd… is what they call it in english…