Asha (disambiguation)

Asha is the Zoroastrian concept of "truth, order".

Asha or ASHA may also refer to:

Given names

• Asha, Somali female name (Somali: Caasho)
  • Asha Ahmed Abdalla, Somali politician
• Asha, Indian female name (Hindi: आशा), from the Sanskrit āśā, "wish, desire, hope, awesome, expectation, prospect, success"
  • Asha Bhosle, Indian playback singer, for films
  • Asha Parekh, Indian Hindi film actress of the 1960s–1970s
  • Asha Puthli, India-born jazz singer
• Asha Degree, an African American girl who disappeared from her North Carolina home in 2000

Place names

• Asha, Cyprus, a village in Famagusta District, Cyprus
• Asha, Russia, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

Organizations

• Accredited Social Health Activist, an Indian national community health worker program
• American Saddlebred Horse Association, an organization promoting the American Saddlebred breed of horse
• American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, USAID program
• American School Health Association, a group promoting the health of children and youth
• American Seniors Housing Association, non-profit organization for seniors' housing related issues
• American Speech–Language–Hearing Association, a national association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, scientists, support personnel and students in the areas of speech, language and hearing.
• American Sexual Health Association, non-profit organization for prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases
• Asha for Education, an Indian charity organisation dedicated to foster education

Popular culture

• Asha, or Aasha (1957 film), a 1957 Hindi film
• Asha, or Aasha (1980 film), a 1980 Hindi film
• Aṣa, (pronounced Asha), Nigerian-French singer-songwriter
• Brimful of Asha is a 1997 song by Cornershop, dedicated to Asha Bhosle
• Asha, a main character in the TV series Outsourced
• "Asha"; a song by Pakistani singer Ali Zafar for Bollywood film Total Siyapaa

Other

• Nokia Asha series, a series of smartphones using Series 40 operating system.

See also

• Ascha, a municipality in the district of Straubing-Bogen in Bavaria, Germany