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Chaja vs Chaya - What's the difference?

chaja | chaya |

As nouns the difference between chaja and chaya

is that chaja is a Brazilian bird, the crested screamer, often domesticated and used to guard poultry while chaya is a teahouse at a sumo arena where tickets may also be purchased.

As a proper noun Chaya is

{{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}.

chaja

English

Alternative forms

* chauna

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Brazilian bird, the crested screamer, often domesticated and used to guard poultry.
    • (Webster 1913)

    chaya

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (sumo) a teahouse at a sumo arena where tickets may also be purchased

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from a Mayan language of the Yucatán Peninsula.

    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, from species .
    • Synonyms
    * (tree spinach)