Dama

Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

• Dama gazelle (Nanger dama)
• Dama (genus) (fallow deer)
  • Fallow deer (Dama dama)
  • Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica)
• Tammar wallaby or Dama wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Business, science and technology

• DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged against medical advice"
• Demand Assigned Multiple Access, a bandwidth allocation strategy
• DAMA/NaI, an experiment to detect dark matter
• DAMA/LIBRA, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI
• Data Management Association, also known as the Global Data Management Community (Dama International); see Data administration
• DAMA protocol ("Document, Assess, Monitor, Act"), a principle used in taxonomy, infectious disease, and parasitology

Culture

• Dama, a name for Turkish draughts
• Dama, stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, founding member of the Madagascar folk-pop band Mahaleo
• Dama (Dune), a fictional character in Chapterhouse Dune (1985) by Frank Herbert
• Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz , which renders its eaters invisible
• D.A.M.A, a Portuguese band
• Chinese Dama, a group of middle-aged Chinese women who rushed to purchase gold as investment in 2013

Geography

• Dama Chiefdom, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone
• Dama, Suwayda, a village in Suwayda Governorate, Syria
• Dama, Tongxiang, a town in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, China
• Dama in Casentino, little stone village "borgo" in Casentino, Tuscany, Italy

Other uses

• Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the Dogon religion
• Dama, or temperance, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint

See also

• Dama language (disambiguation)
• Dama y obrero (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Dama