Chaya may refer to:
Places
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Chaya (Ob), in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River
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Chaya (Lena), 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, a river in Bulgaria
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Chaya County, in Tibet
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Chaya, Afghanistan, a
place in Afghanistan
People
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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 ...
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Chaya Shirōjirō, merchants within that family, wealthy and influential traders with the official patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate
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Afif Chaya (born 1947), Lebanese singer and actor
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B. R. Chaya, Indian playback singer
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Chaya (Hebrew given name), multiple persons
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Chaya Singh (born 1981), Indian actress
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Maxime Chaya (born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer
Other uses
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Chaya (literature), an ancient tradition of providing Sanskrit glosses (transliterations) for Prakrit word forms, particularly in classical Indian drama plays
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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.
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, a vegetable
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Chaya tequila, a brand of tequila
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Chayah (heb. חיה literally "life"), in Judaism a term for soul, considered a part of Hashem (God)
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''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 ...
See also
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Chhaya (disambiguation)
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Shaya (disambiguation)
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Ochaya (茶屋), "teahouse," a Japanese euphemism for traditional drinking establishments of the early modern period
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