Asha is the Zoroastrian concept of "truth, order".
Asha or ASHA may also refer to:
Places
edit- Asha or Assia, Cyprus, a village in Famagusta District, Cyprus
- Asha, Russia, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Names
editReal people
edit- Asha Banks (born 2003), English actress
- Asha Bhosle (born 1933), Indian playback singer, for films
- Asha Posley (1927 – 1998), Pakistani actress and singer in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi films
- Asha Jaquilla Degree (born 1990), an American child who went missing in 2000
- Asha Kreimer (born 1989), Australian woman who has been missing since 2015
- Asha Parekh (born 1942), Indian Hindi film actress of the 1960s-1970s
- Asha Puthli, India-born jazz singer
- Aṣa (pronounced "Àshá"), a Nigerian-French singer-songwriter
Arts, entertainment, and media
edit- Asha (1980 film)
- Brimful of Asha, a 1997 song by Cornershop
- "Asha" (Ewoks episode)
Characters
edit- Asha, the heroine of Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
- Asha Greyjoy, a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels
- Asha, Todd Anderson's employee and love interest in the film Outsourced (2006)
- DS Asha Israni, DI Jimmy Perez's love interest and colleague in the TV series Shetland, series 3
- Asha, the protagonist of the 2023 Disney animated film Wish
Organizations
edit- American School Health Association
- American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, a USAID program
- American Seniors Housing Association
- American Sexual Health Association
- Accredited Social Health Activist, community health workers in India
- American Speech–Language–Hearing Association
- American Student Health Association, original name for the American College Health Association
- Asha for Education
Technology
edit- Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA), an open streaming media protocol for audio casting to hearing receivers.
Other uses
edit- Nokia Asha series, smartphones using the Series 40 operating system
- Asha - African American Collection, a short lived doll line from Mattel; see The Marvelous World of Shani § Asha - African American Collection
See also
edit- Aasha (disambiguation)
- Ascha, a municipality in Straubing-Bogen, Bavaria, Germany
- Arsha (disambiguation)