Chaya may refer to:
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Chaya (Ob)
The Chaya (russian: Чая) 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 riv ...
, in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, a tributary of Ob River
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Chaya (river)
The Chaya (russian: Чая) 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
*''Chaya'', another name for the
Chepelare
Chepelare ( bg, Чепеларе ) 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 wint ...
, 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 or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...
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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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Chaja Rubinstein (1872–1965), Polish-born American business magnate
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Chaya Arbel
Chaya Arbel ( he, חיה ארבל ; 1921 – 2007) was an Israeli composer. She is one of Israel's best known female classical composers and the recipient of the ACUM Prize.
Biography
Arbel studied piano and composition in Germany, until she imm ...
(1921–2007), Israeli composer
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Chaya Czernowin (born 1957), Israeli composer
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Chaya Gusfield
Chaya Gusfield is an American, Northern California attorney, known for being one of the two first openly lesbian rabbis ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement. Gusfield and Rabbi Lori Klein (rabbi), Lori Klein were ordained at the same time in Jan ...
, American attorney and rabbi
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Chaya Mushka Schneersohn (fl. 1860), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
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Chaya Mushka Schneerson
Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson (March 16, 1901 – February 10, 1988), referred to by Lubavitchers as ''The Rebbetzin'', was the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch br ...
(1901–1988), member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
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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 reputation ...
(born 1981), Indian actress
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Maxime Chaya
Maxime Chaya ( ar, مكسيم شعيا) (born December 16, 1961) is a Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer and explorer. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge. On December 28, 2007, ...
(born 1961), Lebanese sportsman and explorer
Other uses
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Cchaya (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 shrub that is believed to have originated in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
The specific epithet, ''aconitif ...
, 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
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Chashitsu'' (茶室), rooms or small buildings used for the Japanese tea ceremony
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Ochaya
In Japan, an is an establishment where patrons are entertained by geisha. A now-archaic term that arose in the Edo period, in the modern day refers exclusively to the establishments within Kyoto in which geisha work and entertain their clients ...
(茶屋), "teahouse," a Japanese euphemism for traditional drinking establishments of the early modern period
See also
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Chhaya (disambiguation)
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Shaya (disambiguation)
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