Tarabya of Toungoo (, ) was viceroy of Toungoo from 1440 to 1446. Prior to Toungoo, he had held governorships at Amyint and Yanaung.

Brief He was a son of Gov. Tarabya I of Pakhan, and younger brother of Queen Saw Min Hla.Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 70 He was appointed governor of Amyint with the title of Tarabya in early 1434 by King Mohnyin Thado.(Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 69–70): The king made the appointment after a series of failed campaigns to Pinle, Yamethin and Taungdwin; the campaigns began in the dry season of 1433–34, and took 3 months. It means the appointment was made February 1434. In 1439, King Minye Kyawswa I succeeded the Ava throne, and appointed Tarabya governor of the strategic town of Yanaung in the Prome region as a step to regain Toungoo which had been in revolt since 1426.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 30

In 1440,(Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 30): Toungoo surrendered in 802 ME (30 March 1440 to 29 March 1441), after which Tarabya was appointed governor. Since (Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 31) also says Tarabya ruled for about six years before his death in January 1446, Tarabya may have become governor in early 802 ME ( April 1440). Tarabya partook in the Ava expedition to Toungoo that retook the region. For his success, Tarabya was appointed viceroy of Toungoo.

According to the Toungoo Yazawin chronicle, a court astrologer predicted in 1442 that the viceroy would die at midnight on 5th waxing of Tabodwe 807 ME (1 January 1446). Angered by the prediction, he sent the astrologer to jail. The chronicle continues that the viceroy died at the midnight of 1 January 1446 as he was taking a shower.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 31 His son Minkhaung succeeded, and freed the astrologer from jail.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 32

Tarabya ruled for nearly six years. Tarabya was a brother-in-law of Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of the Forty Years' War fame. Moreover, starting with the Maha Yazawin chronicle, all royal chronicles identify Tarabya of Toungoo as an ancestor (paternal great-great-great grandfather) of King Bayinnaung of Toungoo Dynasty.Thaw Kaung 2010: 118–119

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