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DHT Holdings

DHT Holdings is an independent crude oil tanker company, incorporated in the Marshall Islands and headquartered in Bermuda, whose fleet of 22 very large crude carriers trades internationally.

Dhu al-Hijja (ذو الحجة)

Dhu al-Hijja (ذو الحجة) is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when the Hajj pilgrimage is performed and Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th.

Dhu al-Hijjah

Dhu al-Hijjah (Arabic: ذو الحجة) is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, the month of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and of Eid al-Adha on its tenth day.

Dhu al-Nun al-Misri

Dhu al-Nun al-Misri (ذو النون المصري), born Thawban ibn Ibrahim, was an Egyptian ascetic and early Sufi theorist of the mystical path's states and stations, who died around 859.

Dhu al-Qarnayn (ذُو ٱلْقَرْنَيْن)

Dhu al-Qarnayn, "the two-horned one," is a figure in Surah al-Kahf of the Quran who travels east and west and builds a barrier against Gog and Magog.

Dhu al-Rumma

Dhu al-Rumma (ذو الرمة), born Ghaylan ibn Uqba, was an Arab poet of the Umayyad caliphate (696–735), often called the last major Bedouin poet, known for desert descriptions and love poems to Mayya.

Dhu Nuwas

Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar) was the last Jewish king of Himyar in Yemen (reigned c. 517-525 CE), remembered for the massacre of Najran's Christians around 523 CE, attested in his own Sabaic inscriptions, and for his defeat by the Christian Abyssinians of Aksum.

Dhu Nuwas's persecution of the Christians of Himyar

Dhu Nuwas's persecution of the Christians of Himyar was a campaign by the Jewish king Yusuf As'ar against southern Arabia's Christians, culminating in the 523 attack on Najran.

Dhu Shanatir

Dhu Shanatir, also known as Zu Shenatir (ذو شناتر), is a tyrannical usurper of the throne of Himyar in Yemen known only from Arabic tradition, killed by Dhu Nuwas.

Dhul-Qadir tribe

The Dhul-Qadir tribe (ایل ذوالقدر) was a Ghuzz Turkic tribe that became one of the most important Qizilbash tribes of Safavid Iran, joining Shah Esmail at the state's founding.

Dhule (धुळे)

Dhule, also written धुळे, is a district in northwestern Maharashtra, India, headquartered at the city of Dhule, which was formed from the old West Khandesh district.

Dhumaketu

Dhumaketu (ધૂમકેતુ, "comet") was the pen name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892–1965), a pioneer of the Gujarati short story who published 24 short-story collections.

Dhumavati (धूमावती)

Dhumavati (धूमावती), the smoky one, is the seventh of the ten Mahavidya goddesses of Shakta Tantra, the only widow without a consort, first attested in the 11th-century Sharadatilakatantra and worshipped today in Varanasi as a neighborhood goddess.

Dhumketu (ধূমকেতু) (2025 film)

Dhumketu (ধূমকেতু), 2025 Bengali romantic drama directed by Kaushik Ganguly, starring Dev and Subhashree Ganguly; shot in 2015, released 14 August 2025 after a decade-long delay, a record Bengali opener.

Dhunnunid dynasty

The Dhunnunid dynasty (بنو ذي النون, Banu Dhi l-Nun) was a Muslim Berber dynasty of the Hawwara tribe that took Toledo in 1036 under Ismail al-Zafir.

Dhurandhar (soundtrack)

Dhurandhar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Shashwat Sachdev's 2025 Saregama album for Aditya Dhar's Hindi thriller, 11 songs in 38 minutes sampling 1960s–1990s Hindi and Punjabi classics with Hanumankind, Diljit Dosanjh, Arijit Singh; distinct from the 2026 sequel soundtrack.

Dhurandhar (धुरंधर) (2025 film)

Dhurandhar (धुरंधर) is a 2025 Hindi spy action thriller directed by Aditya Dhar, starring Ranveer Singh as an undercover agent in Karachi's Lyari underworld. Released 5 December 2025, it became the highest-grossing Hindi film domestically and spawned Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026).

Dhurandhar Duology

The Dhurandhar Duology is a two-part Hindi spy action thriller directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh. The franchise, including Dhurandhar (2025) and The Revenge (2026), crossed ₹30 billion worldwide.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge

Dhurandhar: The Revenge (Dhurandhar 2) is a 2026 Hindi spy action thriller sequel directed by Aditya Dhar, starring Ranveer Singh as undercover agent Hamza Ali Mazari/Jaskirat Singh Rangi; released 19 March 2026, 235 minutes, a major box-office hit with divided reviews.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge (soundtrack)

Dhurandhar: The Revenge soundtrack: 2026 Hindi spy-thriller album by Shashwat Sachdev on T-Series, 5-song EP March 17, 2026 expanded to 14 tracks, heavy recreations (Aari Aari, Didi, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), 80M+ Spotify streams.

Dhurjati

Dhurjati, also called Pedda Dhurjati, was a 16th-century Telugu poet of Srikalahasti, counted among the Ashtadiggajas at Krishnadevaraya's court and known for the Srikalahastisvara Satakamu.

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (துருவங்கள் பதினாறு)

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (துருவங்கள் பதினாறு), also D16, is a 2016 Tamil mystery thriller directed by debutant Karthick Naren, starring Rahman as disabled ex-cop Deepak recounting a murder case; released 29 December 2016.

Dhvani Bhanushali

Dhvani Bhanushali (ध्वनि भानुशाली), born 1998 in Mumbai, is an Indian pop and playback singer, daughter of T-Series executive Vinod Bhanushali, known for Vaaste (over one billion YouTube views), the album Lagan (2023), and her 2024 acting debut.

Dhvani school

The Dhvani school (ध्वनि सम्प्रदाय) is a school of Sanskrit poetics founded by the ninth-century Kashmiri theorist Ānandavardhana, who held that suggestion is the soul of poetry.

Dhvanyaloka

Dhvanyaloka (ध्वन्यालोक), also known as Sahṛdayaloka, is a ninth-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by Anandavardhana of Kashmir that established dhvani, the theory of suggested meaning.

Dhvanyaloka-locana

Dhvanyaloka-locana is the traditional pairing of two Sanskrit works on poetics: Anandavardhana's ninth-century Dhvanyaloka, which made suggestion the soul of poetry, and Abhinavagupta's Locana commentary.

Dhvanyalokalochana

Dhvanyalokalochana (Dhvanyaloka-Locana, ध्वन्यालोक-लोचन) is the combined reading of the Dhvanyaloka, Anandavardhana's ninth-century treatise holding that poetry works through suggested meaning, with Abhinavagupta's commentary, the Locana.

DHX15

DHX15 (DEAH-box helicase 15, aliases PRP43, DDX15) is a human chromosome 4p15.2 gene encoding an ATP-dependent RNA helicase, the metazoan Prp43 ortholog, that disassembles the spliceosome via U6 snRNA and also functions in ribosome biogenesis and antiviral immunity.

DHX9

DHX9 (DExH-box helicase 9; RNA helicase A, NDH II) is a human 1q25.3 gene encoding an ATP-dependent 3'-5' helicase acting on RNA, DNA, R-loops, and G-quadruplexes, linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, CMT, and cancer.

Dhyan Chand (ध्यान चंद)

Dhyan Chand (ध्यान चंद), born Dhyan Singh, was an Indian field hockey center-forward who won three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932, and 1936, captaining the 1936 team.