daf

plural dafs

1. entertainmentA large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.

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   MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).

   2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022

plural dafim

1. A (double-sided) page of the Talmud.

alternative DAF

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of dumb as fuck.

plural DAFs

1. abbreviationacronymcountableuncountableAcronym of Delivered At Frontier.
2. abbreviationacronymcountableuncountableAcronym of delayed auditory feedback.
3. abbreviationacronymcountableuncountableAcronym of donor-advised fund.

1. Internetnot comparableAlternative letter-case form of daf (“dumb as fuck”).

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Dutch Automobile Federation.

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Dictionnaire de l’Académie française.

1. NazismhistoricalThe German Labour Front.

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   Keen to avoid civil unrest and thus give the Americans a pretext to take it back, French authorities allowed Stuttgart’s antifascists considerable leeway in dismantling the Nazi-era German Labor Front (DAF), rebuilding shop-floor organization in the factories, and organizing the population in cross-party antifascist alliances.

   2017 May 28, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine