Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

Dama gazelle The dama gazelle (''Nanger dama''), also known as the addra gazelle or mhorr gazelle, is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa, in the Sahara desert and the Sahel. A critically endangered species, it has disappeared from most of its former r ...

(''Nanger dama'') * ''Dama'' (genus) (fallow deer) **

Fallow deer ''Dama'' is a genus of deer in the subfamily Cervinae, commonly referred to as fallow deer. Name The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour. The Latin word ''dāma'' or ''damma'', used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes, ...

(''Dama dama'') **

Persian fallow deer The Persian fallow deer (''Dama mesopotamica'') is a deer species once native to all of the Middle East, but currently only living in Iran and Israel. It was reintroduced in Israel. It has been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2008 ...

(''Dama mesopotamica'') *

Tammar wallaby The tammar wallaby (''Notamacropus eugenii''), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia. Though its geographical range has been severely reduced since European colonisation, the ...

or Dama wallaby (''Macropus eugenii'')

Business, science and technology

*DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged

against medical advice Against medical advice (AMA), sometimes known as discharge against medical advice (DAMA), is a term used in health care institutions when a patient leaves a hospital against the advice of their doctor. While leaving before a medically specified ...

" *

Demand Assigned Multiple Access Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) is a technology used to assign a channel to clients that don't need to use it constantly. DAMA systems assign communication channels based on news issued from user terminals to a network security system. Wh ...

, a bandwidth allocation strategy * DAMA/NaI, an experiment to detect dark matter *

DAMA/LIBRA The DAMA/LIBRA experiment is a particle detector experiment designed to detect dark matter using the direct detection approach, by using a matrix of NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors to detect dark matter particles in the galactic halo. The exp ...

, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI *

Data Management Association The Data Management Association (DAMA), formerly known as the Data Administration Management Association, is a global not-for-profit organization which aims to advance concepts and practices about information management and data management. It desc ...

, also known as the Global Data Management Community (Dama International); see Data administration

Culture

*Dama, a name for

Turkish draughts Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: دامە) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Se ...

*Dama, stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, founding member of the Madagascar folk-pop band

Mahaleo Mahaleo is a folk-pop band from Madagascar that is widely viewed as the most popular Malagasy group of all time. The band was founded by Dama (Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo) with six of his classmates after first performing together during the ...

* Dama (''Dune''), a fictional character in ''Chapterhouse Dune'' (1985) by Frank Herbert *Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in ''

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'' is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy Gale with the humbug Wizard from ''The Wonderful Wizard o ...

'', 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 Dama Chiefdom is a chiefdom in Kenema District of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds th ...

, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone * Dama, Syria, a village * Dama, Tongxiang, a town in

Tongxiang Tongxiang City () is a county-level city, part of Jiaxing, in northern Zhejiang Province, China, bordering Jiangsu province to the north. It had a population of 1,029,754 as of the 2020 census even though its built-up (''or metro'') area is sm ...

, Zhejiang Province, China

Other uses

*Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the

Dogon religion The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. They speak the Dogon ...

*Dama, or

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...

, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint

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