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 ra ...

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

Fallow deer Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus ''Dama'' of subfamily Cervinae. There are two living species, the European fallow deer (''Dama dama''), native to Europe and Anatolia, and the Persian fallow deer (''Dama mesopotamic ...

(''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" *

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

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

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

Data administration Data administration or data resource management is an organizational function working in the areas of information systems and computer science that plans, organizes, describes and controls data resources. Data resources are usually stored in databas ...

* DAMA protocol ("Document, Assess, Monitor, Act"), a principle used in

taxonomy image:Hierarchical clustering diagram.png, 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme o ...

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmis ...

, and

parasitology Parasitology is the study of parasites, their host (biology), hosts, and the relationship between them. As a List of biology disciplines, biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in questio ...

Culture

*Dama, a name for

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

*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 ...

'', 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, 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 * Dama in Casentino, little stone village "borgo" in

Casentino The Casentino is the valley in which the first tract of the river Arno flows to Subbiano, Italy. It is one of the four valleys (alongside Valdarno, Valdichiana, and Valtiberina) in which the Province of Arezzo is divided. Mount Falterona, from w ...

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

Other uses

*Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the

Dogon religion The Dogon religion is the traditional religious or spiritual beliefs of the Dogon people of Mali. Dogons who adhere to the Dogon religion believe in one Supreme Creator called Amma (or Ama). Insoll, Timothy, ''Archaeology, Ritual, Religion'', ...

*Dama, or temperance, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint

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