Da, DA, dA and other variants may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • DA! (band), a Chicago post-punk band of the 1980s
  • Da (play), a 1978 play by Hugh Leonard
  • Da (film), a 1988 film based on the play
  • Damon Amendolara, American sports talk radio host
  • Daniel Amos, also known as D.A. and Dä, an American Christian rock band
  • Dennis Armand Lucchesi, who recorded the song "Ready 'n' Steady" under the name "D.A."
  • Destination America, American television channel
  • DeviantArt or DA, a website that focuses on art
  • Dumbledore's Army, a group formed by Harry Potter in his 5th year to teach students defensive spells
  • Jon Moxley, formerly Dean Ambrose in WWE, a wrestler
  • One Woman's War: Da (Mother), a book about memoirs of a mother during Iran–Iraq War

Degrees and licenses

  • Diploma of Anesthesiology, a degree conferred by some medical institutions such as the Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Doctor of Arts, an academic degree

Organizations

  • Da!, a Russian youth movement
  • Debtors Anonymous
  • Donegal Artillery, a reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in County Donegal, Ireland
  • Air Georgia, a Georgian airline (IATA code DA)
  • United States Department of the Army, administrative parent of the United States Army

Politics and judiciary

  • Da (political party), a defunct Israeli political party
  • DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), a former name for a D-Notice, a government request the UK not to publish or broadcast a specified news item for reasons of national security
  • Democratic Alliance (South Africa), a South African political party
  • Democratic Awakening (), East German political party
  • Department of Agriculture (Philippines), an executive department
  • Deutsche Alternative ("German Alternative"), a rightist group
  • District attorney, (United States) chief prosecutor for a local government area, particularly a county
  • Justice and Truth Alliance (), a defunct alliance of parties in Romania

Places

  • Da County, a division in Sichuan, China
  • DA postcode area, a postcode area in England
  • Da River or Black River, a river in China and northwestern Vietnam
  • Dah, Ivory Coast, a village in Montagnes District, Ivory Coast, also spelt "Da"

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • DA (chemotherapy), standard-dose cytarabine plus daunorubicin
  • Deoxyanthocyanidin
  • Domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by phytoplankton
  • Dopamine, a monoamine neurotransmitter

Other uses in science and technology

  • Dalton (unit) (symbol Da), also called the unified atomic mass unit
  • Deca- or da-, an SI prefix for a factor of 10
  • Distribution amplifier, a device that accepts a single input signal and provides this same signal to multiple isolated outputs
  • Double-action, a firearm operation mechanism in which the trigger both cocks and releases the hammer
  • NZR DA class, a New Zealand diesel locomotive
  • SJ Da, a Swedish electric locomotive
  • Domain authority Domain Authority

Sports

  • U.S. Soccer Development Academy, former United States soccer league

Other uses

  • D.A. Wallach (born 1985), American musician and business executive
  • Da (Javanese), a syllable in Javanese script
  • Da. or Dòna, the honorific Mrs. in Occitan language
  • Da Hoss, an American racehorse
  • Dame of St Andrew, a discontinued award within the Order of Barbados
  • Danish language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code DA)
  • Dearness allowance, cost of living allowance to government employees in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
  • Desk accessory, graphical programs
  • Direct action (military), in special operations
  • Disadvantage, an off-case argument used by the Negative team in a policy debate
  • Doomsday argument, a probabilistic argument based on demographics predicting how many people will be born
  • Duck's ass or duck's arse, a haircut; particularly popular during the 1950s
  • Dynamic game difficulty balancing, also known as difficulty adjustment or DA, an algorithm in video games.
  • South Kalimantan (vehicle registration prefix DA)
  • Da (Armenian letter)
  • Da (Indic)

See also

  • Da Da Da (disambiguation)
  • Dah (disambiguation)
  • The D.A. (disambiguation)
  • Boti, a cutting utensil also known as daa