Monday, October 6, 2008

Dai

Dai can mean:

* Dai people, one of the 56 recognized ethnic minorities of China
* Dai , a traditional midwife in India, belonging to a lower caste
* Da'i 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 is also a morpheme for "big," appearing in a number of Japanese words and names
* Dai is the greeting and farewell used by the wizards in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.
*Dai County, a county in Shanxi, China.

Acronyms


* The DAI Personal Computer, an early home computer from Belgium.
* the New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange for automaker Daimler AG .
* 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.
* code of Darjeeling airport in India
* De Administrando Imperio, a Byzantine historical compilation written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos
* DAI , the traffic police branch of the Ukrainian militsiya.
* German Archaeological Institute, an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs
* the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut
* Diffuse axonal injury, a type of traumatic brain injury
* , a port used in hearing aids and hearing instruments
* 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.
* , an ARP Spoofing or ARP Poison/Routing protection method developed by Cisco.

Names


* Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of David or its Welsh equivalent Dafydd
* Dai is a Chinese surname.
* Dai Davies
* Dai Davies
* Dai Matsumoto, a Japanese voice actor
* Dai Nagao, Japanese composer, musician and producer
* Dai Satō, a Japanese screenwriter and musician

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