Dwarf

Dwarf, dwarfs or dwarves may refer to:

Common uses

• Dwarf (folklore), a supernatural being from Germanic folklore
• Dwarf, a human or animal with dwarfism

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons), a short humanoid race
• Dwarf (Middle-earth), a humanoid race in J. R. R. Tolkien's literature
• Dwarf (Warhammer), a humanoid race
• Dwarfs (Discworld), a race of characters
• Dwarves (Warcraft), a short, strong race
• Dwarves (Marvel Comics)
• Seven Dwarfs

Literature

• The Dwarf (Cho novel), a 1978 novel by Cho Se-hui
• The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel), a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Dwarfs?! (video game)
• Dwarves (band), American punk band
• Killer Dwarfs, Canadian heavy metal band
• Wrocław's dwarfs, small sculptures in Wrocław, Poland
• Dwarves (Mayfair Games), a supplement for role-playing games

Biology

• Phyletic dwarfism, an average decrease in size of animals
• Insular dwarfism, a evolutionary condition caused by genetic and environmental factors (e.g. no / little predators and smaller geography)

Astronomy

• Dwarf galaxy
• Dwarf planet
• Dwarf star

Other uses

• Dwarf, Kentucky
• DWARF, a debugging data format
• PYGMIES + DWARFS arguments

See also

• Dwarven language (disambiguation)
• (including many cross-references from common names of plants or animals)