DHA, Dha and dha may refer to:

Chemicals

* 3,4-Dihydroxyamphetamine, an amphetamine derivative *

Docosahexaenoic acid Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega−3 fatty acid that is an important component of the human brain, cerebral cortex, skin, and retina. It is given the fatty acid notation 22:6(''n''−3). It can be synthesized from alpha-linolenic acid or ...

, a 22:6 omega-3 fatty acid * Dehydroandrosterone, an endogenous androgenic steroid *

Dehydroascorbic acid Dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) is the major oxidized form of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). It is actively imported into the endoplasmic reticulum of cells via glucose transporters. It is trapped therein by reduction back to ascorbic acid by glutathi ...

, an oxidized form of ascorbic acid *

Dehydroacetic acid Dehydroacetic acid is an organic compound which has several industrial applications. The compound is classified as a pyrone derivative. It presents as an odorless, colorless to white crystalline powder, almost insoluble in water and moderately so ...

, a pyrone derivative used as a plasticiser, as a fungicide, as a bactericide, and as a food preservative *

Dihydroxyacetone Dihydroxyacetone (; DHA), also known as glycerone, is a simple saccharide (a triose) with formula . DHA is primarily used as an ingredient in sunless tanning products. It is often derived from plant sources such as sugar beets and sugar cane, ...

, the active ingredient in sunless or self-tanning skincare products * 9,10-Dihydroanthracene, a form of anthracene whose center-ring carbons have been reduced *

Dihydroartemisinin Dihydroartemisinin (also known as dihydroqinghaosu, artenimol or DHA) is a drug used to treat malaria. Dihydroartemisinin is the active metabolite of all artemisinin compounds (artemisinin, artesunate, artemether, etc.) and is also availabl ...

, an antimalarial * Dihydroalprenolol, a beta-adrenergic blocker *

Dehydroalanine Dehydroalanine (Cα,β-didehydroalanine, α,β-di-dehydroalanine, 2-aminoacrylate, or 2,3-didehydroalanine) is a dehydroamino acid. It does not exist in its free form, but it occurs naturally as a residue found in peptides of microbial origin. As ...

, an uncommon unsaturated α-amino acid

Organizations

Defence Housing Australia Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is an Australian government business enterprise established by the ''Defence Housing Australia Act 1987''. DHA supplies housing and related services to Australian Defence Force members and their families in line ...

, a provider of family housing for members of the Australian Defence Forces *

Defence Housing Authority Defence Housing Authority (DHA) () is a Pakistan Army-administered real-estate developer that governs housing and municipal services for Defence neighbourhoods across Pakistan. The Defence Secretary is its chairman and it is managed by the Paki ...

, provides commercial and residential housing developments for the Pakistani army **

Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad The Defence Housing Authority, Islamabad-Rawalpindi (DHAI-R) () is an affluent residential neighbourhood or a gated community located within Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area of Pakistan. The neighbourhood is divided into five parts and ...

Defence Housing Authority, Karachi The Pakistan Defense Officers Housing Authority (PDOHA), Karachi (), formerly Pakistan Defense Officers Cooperative Housing Society, is a residential neighbourhood or a housing society located within Clifton Cantonment of Karachi. The total p ...

Defense Health Agency The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Commands in both pea ...

, the United States Department of Defense agency responsible for managing the activities of the Military Health System * Department of Humanitarian Affairs, now known as the United Nations

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disaster ...

DHA Cinema DHA Cinema (or Defence Housing Authority Cinema) is a movie theatre in Lahore, Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth ...

, a movie theatre in Lahore, Pakistan *

District health authority District health authorities (DHAs) were National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (Eng ...

, a former type of administrative organisation of the NHS in England and Wales *

Drug Houses of Australia Drug Houses of Australia (DHA) was originally established in 1936Bickford's
SA Memory, State Library of Sout ...

, a Singapore pharmaceuticals manufacturer * ''Demirören Haber Ajansı'' (

Demirören News Agency Demirören News Agency (DHA; ) is a Turkish news agency which was founded in 1999. It is owned by the Demirören Group. It provides news in English, German and Chinese as well as Turkish. In 2011 it had 41 offices in Turkey and 26 abroad. Formerl ...

), a Turkish news agency

Linguistics

Dha (Indic) Dha is a consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Dha is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta script, Gupta letter . Āryabhaṭa numeration Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for num ...

, a glyph in the Brahmic family of script *

Dha (Javanese) is a syllable in the Javanese script that represents the sounds /ɖɔ/, /ɖa/. It is transliterated to Latin as "dha", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "dho". It has another form (''pasangan''), which is , but represented by a single ...

(ꦝ), a letter in the Javanese script

Other

Dha, Ladakh Dah (or Dha, Da; ) is a panchayat village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is the most prominent of all the Brokpa settlements, other than Dah, it has six hamlets: Biama(or phunder) , Baldes, Sannit, Pardos, Lastyang and Dundur It i ...

, a village in the Leh district of India. *

Dhahran International Airport Dhahran (, ) is a city located in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. With a total population of 143,936 as of 2022, it is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Together with the nearby cities of Dammam and Khobar, Dhahra ...

, military airbase in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia *

Dha (sword) Dha (; also spelled ''dah'') is the Burmese word for "knife" and "sword" similar term to daab or darb () in Thai language for a single edge sword. The term dha is conventionally used to refer to a wide variety of knives and swords used by many ...

, a single-edged weapon found in Burma/Myanmar, Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia *

Directory Harvest Attack A directory harvest attack (DHA) is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find valid/existent e-mail addresses at a domain by using brute force. The attack is usually carried out by way of a standard dictionary attack, where valid e-mai ...

, a method used by spammers to obtain email addresses *

Disarmament as Humanitarian Action Disarmament as Humanitarian Action: Making Multilateral Negotiations Work (DHA) is a research project carried out at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). This project, launched in 2004, examines current difficulties f ...

, a research project carried out at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research * Doctor of Health Administration, a doctoral degree * D.Ha., an abbreviation used for the

United States District Court for the District of Hawaii The United States District Court for the District of Hawaii (in case citations, D. Haw.) is the principal trial court of the United States Federal Court System in the state of Hawaii. The court's territorial jurisdiction encompasses the st ...

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