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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 ([[wikt:大|大]]) is also a [[Sino-Japanese vocabulary|Sino-Japanese]] morpheme for "big," appearing in a number of Japanese words and names (and even a few pseudo-Japanese words, such as [[Daikatana (sword)|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.
===Acronyms===
* The [[DAI Personal Computer]], an early ([[1980]]) [[home computer]] from Belgium.
* the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and [[Frankfurt Stock Exchange]] [[Ticker symbol|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.
* [[List of airports by IATA code: D#DA|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 Archaeological Institute]], an archaeological institute operated by the German ministry of foreign affairs
* the [[Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut]] (German-American Institute)
* [[Diffuse axonal injury]], a type of traumatic brain injury
* [[Hearing Aid#DAI|Direct Audio Input]], 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.
* [[DHCP_snooping#Preventing_ARP_Spoofing|Dynamic ARP Inspection]], an ARP Spoofing or ARP Poison/Routing (APR) protection method developed by Cisco.
===Names===
* Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of [[David]] or its Welsh equivalent [[Dafydd]]
* Dai ([[wikt:戴|戴]]) is a [[Chinese surname]].
* [[Dai Davies (footballer)]]
* [[Dai Davies (politician)]]
* [[Dai Young (Rugby)]], rugby coach
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