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Yasha (Template:Lang-ru) is the Russian diminutive form of the male given name Yakov (Я́ков, Иа́ков), the equivalent of the given names Jacob and James.

Yasha (Template:Lang-fa) is also used by Iranians and Iranian Turks (Azeris in Iran) as a male given name; in those languages, the word Yasha means "to live" and the name Yashar means "to live forever".

Yasha is a female name used in India and by Hindus. It is derived from sanskrit words "Yashas" or "Yash " (यशस्) (यश), meaning fame, renown or glory.

People with the name

• Gu Yasha (born 1990), Chinese footballer
• Nidhi Yasha (born 1983), Indian costume designer
• Yasha Asley (born 2003), British mathematics child prodigy
• Yasha Khalili (born 1988), Iranian footballer
• Yasha Levine, Russian-American investigative journalist and author
• Yasha Malekzad (born 1984), English music video director and producer
• Yasha Manasherov (born 1980), Israeli Greco-Roman amateur wrestler
• Yashas Shetty, Indian contemporary artist, biohacker, and musician

Arts and entertainment

Anime and manga

• Yasha (manga), a Japanese manga series by Akimi Yoshida
• Yasha Gozen, a Japanese one-shot manga by Ryoko Yamagishi
• Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, a Japanese anime series and the sequel to Inuyasha

Fictional characters

• Yasha, in the 1904 Russian play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
• Yasha, in the 1990 Soviet adventure film Passport
• Yasha, in the 1993 Japanese anime film Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie
• Yasha, in the 2012 Japanese action video game Asura's Wrath
• Yasha Nydoorin, in the American D&D web series Critical Role
• Yasha-ō, in the Japanese manga series RG Veda

Other uses

• Yasha or yaksha, nature-spirits in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, sometimes depicted as demonic warriors
• Stonogobiops yasha, a species of goby native to the Western Pacific Ocean

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Yasha
• All pages with titles containing Yasha
• Yash (disambiguation)
• Yaksha (disambiguation)
• Yeshua (disambiguation)

References

1. "Meaning and origin of name Yasha". All Baby Names. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
2. "The Name Origin and Meaning of Yasha". Baby Names Country. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
3. یاشا. nameniko.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019.

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• Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists