Chaya

Chaya may refer to:

Places

• Chaya (Ob), in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River
• Chaya (river), in Siberia, Russia, a tributary of Lena River
• Chaya, another name for the Chepelare, a river in Bulgaria
• Chaya County, in Tibet
• Chaya, Afghanistan, a place in Afghanistan

People

• Chaya family, a wealthy family of textile merchants based in Kyoto, Japan from the 16th century into the Edo period
  • Chaya Shirōjirō, merchants within that family, wealthy and influential traders with the official patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Afif Chaya (born 1947), Lebanese singer and actor
• B. R. Chaya, Indian playback singer
• Chaja Rubinstein (1872–1965), Polish-born American business magnate
• Chaya Arbel (1921–2007), Israeli composer
• Chaya Czernowin (born 1957), Israeli composer
• Chaya Gusfield, American attorney and rabbi
• Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (fl. 1860), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
• Chaya Mushka Schneerson (1901–1988), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
• Chaya Singh (born 1981), Indian actress
• Maxime Chaya (born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer
• Chaya Raichik (born 1990), American blogger and owner of Libs of TikTok

Other uses

• Cchaya (literature), an ancient tradition of providing Sanskrit glosses (transliterations) for Prakrit word forms, particularly in classical Indian drama plays
• Chaya (plant), a vegetable
• Chaya tequila, a brand of tequila
• Chayah (heb. חיה literally "life"), in Judaism a term for soul, considered a part of Hashem (God)
• Chaya (film), a Kannada-language film
• Chashitsu (茶室), rooms or small buildings used for the Japanese tea ceremony
• Ochaya (茶屋), "teahouse," a Japanese euphemism for traditional drinking establishments of the early modern period

See also

• Chhaya (disambiguation)
• Shaya (disambiguation)