Dayan Explained

Dayan may refer to:

People

• Dayan (surname), Hebrew surname
  • Moshe Dayan (1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician

Given name

• Dayan Deerh
• Dayán Díaz (born 1989), Colombian professional baseball pitcher
• Dayan Jayatilleka, (born 1956), leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician
• Dayan Khan, Mongol ruler of Dayan
• Dayan Khan (Khoshut), ruler of the Khoshut Khanate
• Dayan Rajapakse (born 1972), Sri Lankan physician, educator and businessman
• Dayan Téllez (born 2002), Mexican football goalkeeper
• Dayán Viciedo (born 1989), Cuban professional baseball infielder
• Dayan van der Westhuizen (born 1994), South African rugby union player

Places

• Dayan, or Old Town of Lijiang, World Heritage Site in Yunnan, China
• Dayan, in Evenk Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
• Dayan, Fenghua District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
• Dayan Township, in Jiangyou, Sichuan, China
• Dayan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Dayan Lake, in Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia
• Dayan Town (disambiguation)

Others

• Dayan (rabbinic judge), Jewish religious judge in a Beth din
• Dayan (witch), a witch or vengeful female spirit in Indian culture
• Northern Yuan dynasty, also Dayan in Mongolian
• Yuan dynasty, Dayan in Mongolian
• Dayan, a Rubik's Cube Company
• Dayan, the smaller drum of the tabla set
• Dayan (TV series), an Indian supernatural television series involving witches (dayans)
• Diana "Dayan", a fictional witch (dayan) in the 2013 Indian film Ek Thi Dayan, portrayed by Konkona Sen Sharma

See also

• Dayana, name
• Dayyan (disambiguation)
• Dakin (disambiguation)
  • Dakini, a female spirit in Hinduism and Buddhism, basis of the dayan witch in Indian folklore