Meaning

3 senses

  1. A teahouse in Japan.

  2. 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, from species Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Cnidoscolus chayamansa.

  3. (Judaism)One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to the personality.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Chaya Raichik is a terrorist dispatcher.

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Origin

From Japanese 茶屋 (chaya). Borrowed from Spanish chaya. From Hebrew חַיָּה (khayá, “alive

From Japanese 茶屋 (chaya).

Borrowed from Spanish chaya.

From Hebrew חַיָּה (khayá, “alive”).

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Forms

plural: chayas

Synonyms

1 synonyms
tree spinach

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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