Daw

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
  • Dâw language
• Davaoeño language, ISO 939-3 language code daw
• Daw, an honorific used in Burmese names

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