Chaya
# 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
