Dai

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Dai or DAI can mean:

• DAI, the IATA airport code of Darjeeling airport in India
• Dai people, one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of China
• Dai (midwife), a traditional midwife in India, belonging to a lower caste
• Da`i (داعي or داع) in Arabic is a "missionary" or caller to Islam (a person who engages in Dawah); this term is used to refer to religious leaders in Ismaili Islam
• De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos
• Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
• Distributed artificial intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence
• Do As Infinity, a Japanese band
• Doctor's Associates, Inc., a U.S.-based restaurant company which owns the Subway (restaurant) name.
• State of Dai was a Xianbei state during the Sixteen Kingdoms era of history of China
• Dai 大 is also a Sino-Japanese morpheme for 'big', appearing in a number of Japanese words and names (and even a few pseudo-Japanese words, such as Daikatana).
• Dai (戴) is a Chinese surname.

[edit] People

• 'Dai' is the Welsh diminutive form of David or its Welsh equivalent Dafydd.
• Dai Young, rugby coach.
• Dai Davies (politician), politician.
• Dai Davies, footballer.