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.
- Dai County, a county in Shanxi, China.
[edit] Acronyms
- The DAI Personal Computer, an early (1980) home computer from Belgium.
- the New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange stock symbol for automaker Daimler AG (maker of Mercedes-Benz).
- 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
- D.A.I., the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (German-American Institute)
- Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
- Direct Audio Input, a port used in hearing aids and hearing instruments
- 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.
- Dynamic ARP Inspection, an ARP Spoofing or ARP Poison/Routing (APR) protection method developed by Cisco.
- Dansk Arbejder Idræt a Danish sports association for workers.
[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 (Rugby), rugby coach
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