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Dama

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Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

Business, science and technology

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

Religion

  • The Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the Dogon religion

Geography

  • Dama Chiefdom, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone
  • Dama, Syria, a village
  • Dama, Tongxiang, a town in Zhejiang Province, China

Physics

DAMA/NaI, an experiment investigating the presence of dark matter particles

See also

  • Dama is temperance, a Hindu virtue of spiritual practices that develop the senses in positive directions
  • Las Damas Romanas (literally, "The Roman Women"), a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna
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