Chaya

Chaya may refer to:

Places

• Chaya (Ob), in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River
• Chaya (Lena), 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
• Chaya (Hebrew given name), multiple persons
• Chaya Singh (born 1981), Indian actress
• Maxime Chaya (born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer

Other uses

• Chaya (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
• Chaya, a 1971 horror novel by Indian writer Narayan Dharap

See also

• Chhaya (disambiguation)
• Shaya (disambiguation)
• Ochaya (茶屋), "teahouse," a Japanese euphemism for traditional drinking establishments of the early modern period