Dama

Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

 * Dama gazelle (Nanger dama)
 * Dama (genus) (fallow deer)
 * Fallow deer (Dama dama)
 * Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica)
 * Tammar wallaby or Dama wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Business, science and technology

 * DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged against medical advice"
 * Demand Assigned Multiple Access, a bandwidth allocation strategy
 * DAMA/NaI, an experiment to detect dark matter
 * DAMA/LIBRA, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI
 * Data Management Association, also known as the Global Data Management Community (Dama International); see Data administration
 * DAMA protocol ("Document, Assess, Monitor, Act"), a principle used in taxonomy, infectious disease, and parasitology

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

Geography

 * Dama Chiefdom, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone
 * Dama, Syria, a village
 * Dama, Tongxiang, a town in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, China
 * Dama, little stone village "borgo" in Casentino, Tuscany, Italy

Other uses

 * Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the Dogon religion
 * Dama, or temperance, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint