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Chaya (Ob) The Chaya () is a left tributary of the Ob (river), Ob river in Russia. The river is long and has a catchment area of . Course The Chaya is formed by the confluence of the long Parbig and the long Bakchar (river), Bakchar rivers. It flows i ...

, in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River *

Chaya (Lena) The Chaya () is a river in Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is the 26th longest tributary of the Lena, with a length of and a drainage basin area of .

, in Siberia, Russia, a tributary of

Lena River The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East and is the easternmost river of the three great rivers of Siberia which flow into the Arctic Ocean, the others being Ob (river), Ob and Yenisey. The Lena River is long and has a capacious drainage basi ...

*''Chaya'', another name for the

Chepelare Chepelare ( ) is the principal town in Chepelare Municipality, part of Smolyan Province in Southern Bulgaria. It is situated in the central part of the Rhodopes, on the banks of Chepelare River. Chepelare is a popular winter resort with one o ...

, 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 The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

Chaya Shirōjirō Chaya Shirōjirō (茶屋四郎次郎) was the name of a series of wealthy and influential Kyoto-based merchants who took part in the red-seal trade licensed under the Tokugawa shogunate. Members of the Chaya family, they were also centrally invol ...

, 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) Chaya is a Hebrew female given name ( ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ; English pronunciations: , ). With its literal meaning "living", it is considered to be a feminine couterpart of the Hebrew masculine given name Haim. It has a number o ...

, multiple persons *

Chaya Singh Chaya Singh is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Tamil and Kannada films and television shows. She started her acting career in Kannada films and has worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri films. She has a reputati ...

(born 1981), Indian actress *

Maxime Chaya Maxime Chaya (; born 16 December 1961) is a Lebanese mountaineer and explorer. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. On December 28, 2007, Max also became the first from the Middle East to reach ...

(born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer

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Chaya (literature) Chaya (Sanskrit: Chāyā) means 'shadow' or 'gloss', and is meant to provide better clarity on what the Prakrit words meant, and for resolving doubts about homonyms in prakrit. It was an ancient Indian tradition of providing Sanskrit glosses ...

, an ancient tradition of providing Sanskrit glosses (transliterations) for Prakrit word forms, particularly in classical Indian drama plays *

Chaya (plant) ''Cnidoscolus aconitifolius'', commonly known as chaya, tree spinach, or spinach tree, is a large, fast-growing and leafy Perennial plant, perennial shrub that is believed to have originated in the Yucatán Peninsula of southeastern Mexico. Th ...

, a vegetable *

Chaya tequila Chaya was a brand of tequila produced by ''Interco Brands Inc'' The product was produced from 100% Blue Agave. History Chaya tequila was the brain child of Albert Berentsen, former president of Kahlúa S.A. It was manufactured from 100% Blue Ag ...

, a brand of tequila *

Chayah The soul is the purported Mind–body dualism, immaterial aspect or essence of a Outline of life forms, living being. It is typically believed to be Immortality, immortal and to exist apart from the material world. The three main theories that ...

(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 Narayan Dharap (27 August 1925 – 18 August 2008) was an Indian writer, primarily of horror fiction in the Marathi language. He wrote more than 100 books and was the first Marathi author to bring H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos to Marathi r ...

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