Daw or DAW may refer to:

People and language

Daw (given name) Daw is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Daw Meskine, French Imam and Secretary General of the French Council for Imams * Daw Penjo, Bhutanese diplomat * Daw Kyan (1918–2019), Burmese historian and writer * Daw Ohn (1913� ...

Daw (surname) Daw is a surname. It may refer to: Darren Daw (born 1964) UK Construction Director * Anne Daw, South Australian campaigner for the protection of water resources and arable land from invasive mining activities * Carl P. Daw Jr. (born 1944), Americ ...

* Daw, an honorific used in

Burmese names Burmese names lack the serial structure of most Western names. The Burmans have no customary matronymic or patronymic system and thus there is no surname at all. In the culture of Myanmar, people can change their name at will, often with no gov ...

* Dâw people, an indigenous people of Brazil *

Dâw language Dâw is a Nadahup language spoken by about one hundred Dâw people in the northwestern part of Amazonas, Brazil, in an area commonly known as Alto Rio Negro. Most Dâw also speak Nheengatu and Portuguese. An extinct variety, ''Kurikuria(r)� ...

, a language of Brazil * Davaoeño language, ISO 939-3 language code daw, Philippines

Places

*Daw, an important city, possibly modern

Gebel Adda Gebel Adda (also Jebel Adda) was a mountain and archaeological site on the right bank of the Nubian Nile in what is now southern Egypt. The settlement on its crest was continuously inhabited from the late Meroitic period (2nd century AD–4th cent ...

, in the medieval kingdom of

Dotawo Dotawo was a Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia (Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt) in the Middle Ages. It is attested in Old Nubian documents from the 12th to the 15th centuries. It is one of the last attested Christian states to survive in the reg ...

Daw, Mauritania Daw, Mauritania is a village and rural commune in Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic R ...

Daw Mill Daw Mill was a coal mine located near the village of Arley, near Nuneaton, in the English county of Warwickshire. The mine was Britain's biggest coal producer. It closed in 2013 following a major fire. It was the last remaining colliery in the W ...

, a mine in Warwickshire, England *

Daw Park, South Australia Daw Park is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the local government area of the City of Mitcham. The suburb is divided into two parts, with a smaller northern exclave separated from the larger southern part by a sectio ...

, a suburb of Adelaide *

Daw's Castle Daw's Castle (or ''Dart's Castle'' or ''Dane's Castle'') is a sea cliff hillfort just west of Watchet, a harbour town in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Monument. The name comes from Thomas Dawe, who owned ''castell'' field in 1537. The ...

, a hill fort in Somerset, England * Skyhaven Airport in Rochester, New Hampshire, with FAA location identifier DAW

Organizations

* DAW Books, an American publisher *

German Equipment Works German Equipment Works (, ) was a Nazi German defense contractor with headquarters in Berlin during World War II, owned and operated by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS). It consisted of a network of requisitioned factories and camp workshops across Germa ...

(german: Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke, label=none), an SS defense contractor *

Division for the Advancement of Women The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women advocates for the rights of women and girls, and focu ...

, part of UN Women

Other uses

* daW, or decawatt, a unit meaning 10

Watt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James Wa ...

s * Daw or

Western jackdaw The western jackdaw (''Coloeus monedula''), also known as the Eurasian jackdaw, the European jackdaw, or simply the jackdaw, is a passerine bird in the crow family. Found across Europe, western Asia and North Africa; it is mostly resident, alt ...

, a bird species of the crow family * "D.A.W.", an episode of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (season 3) *

Digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pro ...

, a device for recording audio files * DAW, "Dispense as written", an abbreviation used in medical prescriptions

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