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