1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
   "Despite its small size, the das is more closely related to elephants than to rodents";
   - hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, daman

1. A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
   "his da was born in Atlanta";
   - father, male parent, begetter [archaic], dad [informal], dada [informal], daddy [informal], pa [informal], papa [informal], pappa [informal], pop [informal], poppa [N. Amer, informal], pappy [informal]

Derived forms: dases

Type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, parent, placental, placental mammal

Part of: family Procaviidae, Procaviidae

Encyclopedia: Das, Krishna