Dayan

Dayan or Daayan may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Daayan (TV series), an Indian paranormal romance series
• Daayan, a 1996 Hindi short story collection by Bhisham Sahni

People

• Dayan (surname), including a list of people with the surname
• Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
• Dayan (given name), including a list of people with the given name
• Dayan Khan (1472–1517), khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty

Places

• Dayan, the Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan, China
• Dayan, Evenk Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
• Dayan, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
• Dayan, Jiangyou, Sichuan, China
• Dayan, Iran
• Dayan Lake, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia

Other uses

• Dayan (rabbinic judge), Jewish religious judge in a beth din
• Dayan (witch), or dayaan, in Indian and Pakistani folklore
• Dayan, the smaller drum of the tabla set

See also

• Dayana, a given name
• Dakin (disambiguation)
• Dayan Deerh, a Mongolian divinity
• Dayyán, a religious figure
• Ek Thi Daayan ('Once there was a witch'), a 2013 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror thriller film