Lais
Lais or Laïs may refer to one of the following:
Places
- Lais, Indonesia, a district in the Musi Banyuasin Regency in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Lais River in Arjeplog Municipality, Sweden
- Lais (barony), a former barony and castle near Tartu, Estonia
- Lais, Latin name for Laish, an earlier Biblical name for the city of Dan
People
- Lais of Corinth (fl. 425 BCE), a courtesan
- Lais of Hyccara (fl. 385 BCE), a courtesan
- Laïs (physician) (fl. 1st/2nd century BCE), an ancient Greek midwife and physician
- The Lais of Marie de France
- Lais (musician) , a Toronto music artist.
Other
- Laïs (band), a musical group
- Plural for Lai, a poetic form
- Breton lais, a form of British medieval romance literature
- Misspelling of lei (garland), a string of flowers in Hawaii
- Genus of flowering plants, now considered to be Hippeastrum
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