Dema

Dema or DEMA may refer to:

• Dema, an Iranian word for the Towers of Silence
• Dema, an Arabic name meaning the cloud that brings rain to the crops after a drought.
• Dema, Burkina Faso
• Dema, the mythological ancestor of an extended family among Marind-anim
• Dema or Dyoma (Russian: Дёма), a river in Bashkiria, Russia.
• Dema, an iKalanga word and last name in Botswana meaning black
• Dema, a Shona word in Zimbabwe meaning black
• Dema, a place in Zimbabwe
• Double exponential moving average (DEMA), a Technical Analyisis indicator
• Dema, linked to the band Twenty One Pilots.

Acronyms

• Danish Emergency Management Agency, or DEMA, a Danish governmental agency under the Ministry of Defence
• Danish National Rescue Preparedness (Danish: Det samlede Redningsberedskab), the Danish nationwide rescue service
• Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement
• Detroit Electronic Music Archive
• Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement
• Diving Equipment and Marketing Association, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation incorporated in California, USA
• Double Exponential Smoothing, or D-EMA, is a mathematical smoothing technique
• DEMA is twenty one pilots´ new album

People

• Gjergji Dema (born August 7, 1971), a retired Albanian international football player
• Dorji Dema (born October 16, 1983), an athlete from Bhutan who competes in archery
• Dema Kovalenko (born August 28, 1977 in Kiev), a Ukrainian soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.

See also

• Demas (an associate of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament)
• Dema Deity (an anthropological classification of foundational culture deities)