Definitions

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  • proper noun A female given name from the Hebrew חַיָּה ("living")
  • noun sumo a teahouse at a sumo arena where tickets may also be purchased
  • noun a large, fast growing leafy perennial Mexican shrub which is popular in Mexico and Central America as a leafy vegetable, cooked and eaten like spinach.

Etymologies

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Hebrew

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Japanese

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Spanish, from a Mayan language of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Examples

  • A nutritional analysis (see chart) shows that chaya is richer in iron than spinach, and a powerful source of potassium and calcium.

    Chaya, the Maya miracle plant 1996

  • A nutritional analysis (see chart) shows that chaya is richer in iron than spinach, and a powerful source of potassium and calcium.

    Chaya, the Maya miracle plant 1996

  • A nutritional analysis (see chart) shows that chaya is richer in iron than spinach, and a powerful source of potassium and calcium.

    Chaya, the Maya miracle plant 1996

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

    G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

  • Hebrew itself didn't have any such word, and "animal" is a pretty accurate translation of chaya, which is derived from chai, meaning "life."

    Archive 2008-05-01 Kylopod 2008

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