Dayan

Look up dayán, dayan, Dayan, or dàyàn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Dayan may refer to:

Chinese

• Dayan or Old Town of Lijiang, World Heritage Site in Yunnan, China
• Dayan Township, in Jiangyou, Sichuan, China

Hebrew

• Dayan (rabbinic judge), a Jewish religious judge in a Beth din
  • Dayan (surname), Hebrew surname
    • Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician

Mongolian

• Yuan dynasty, Dayan in Mongolian
• Northern Yuan dynasty, Dayan in Mongolian
  • Dayan Khan, ruler of Dayan
  • Dayan Khan (Khoshut), ruler of the Khoshut Khanate
• Dayan Lake, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia

Others

• Dayan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Dayan, the smaller drum of the tabla set

See also

• Dayyán