title: Chaya
text: # 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
  