Dai

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Dai can mean:

• 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 (Arabic: "missionary") refers to a person who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam
• 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 is the greeting, and farewell, used by the wizards in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.

[edit] Acronyms

• The DAI Personal Computer, an early (1980) home computer from Belgium.
• Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference refers to changes in the Earth's climate system, resulting from human activity, which are considered to be dangerous to human communities and to ecosystems.
• Darjeeling Airport IATA code of Darjeeling airport in India
• De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos
• DAI (Derzhavna Avtomobyl'na Inspektsiya), the traffic police branch of the Ukrainian militsiya.
• German (Deutsche) Archaeological Institute, an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs
• Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
• Dissertation Abstracts International, a source for online dissertations
• 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.

[edit] Names

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