Daw
Appearance
Daw is mainly an English noun which refers to the jackdaw (Coloeus monedula or Western, Eurasian, European, common jackdaw). DAW as an abbreviation may also be seen (see below):
Names
All either a in reference to the jackdaw (a bird) or medieval diminutive of David.
- Daw (given name)
- Daw (surname)
- Dawe, (surname)
People and language
- Dâw, an indigenous people of Brazil
- Davaoeño language, ISO 939-3 language code daw
Places
- Daw, Mauritania
- Daw Mill, a mine located in Warwickshire, England
- Daw Park, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
- Daw's Castle, a hill fort in Somerset, England
Other uses
- Digital audio workstation, (DAW) a device for recording audio files
- Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke, a Nazi German defense contractor
- "D.A.W.", an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 3)
- DAW Books, an American publisher
- Daw, a less common synonym for Western jackdaw, a bird
- DAW, "Dispense as written", an abbreviation used in medical prescriptions
- Division for the Advancement of Women, part of UN Women
- daW, or decawatt, a unit meaning 10 Watts
See also
- All pages with titles containing Daw
- Daou (disambiguation)
- Daws (disambiguation)
- "See Saw Margery Daw", a nursery rhyme
- "Marjorie Daw" (short story), a 1869 work by Thomas Aldrich
- Daw, an honorific used in Burmese names