Dasho
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Dasho (Dzongkha: དྲག་ཤོས; Wylie: Drag-shos) (lit. Excellent One){{cn|date=May 2022}} is a Bhutanese honorific that is bestowed upon individuals, along with a red scarf kabney, by the Druk Gyalpo.{{cite web|url=https://kuenselonline.com/what-is-in-a-name-3/|title=What is in a Name? Part III|date=11 October 2015|author=Karma Phuntsho|authorlink=Karma Phuntsho|website=Kuensel|accessdate=12 March 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923110705/https://kuenselonline.com/what-is-in-a-name-3/|archivedate=23 September 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last1=Mayhew|first1=Bradley|last2=Brown|first2=Lindsay|last3=Armington|first3=Stan|last4=Whitecross|first4=Richard W.|title=Lonely Planet Bhutan (Country Guide)|publisher=Lonely Planet|location=Footscray, Vic. London|year=2017|isbn=978-1740595292|oclc=974656262|page=49}} In common practice, however, many senior government officials and social elites are addressed as Dasho without officially receiving the title and the red scarf kabney.
Although the title is bestowed upon both men and women, men are more likely to be addressed as Dasho without receiving the kabney.{{cite web|url=https://kuenselonline.com/gullibility/|title=Gullibility|website=Kuensel|date=25 August 2018|author=Dorji Dhradhul|accessdate=12 March 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825042702/http://www.kuenselonline.com/gullibility/|archivedate=25 August 2019|url-status=live}} Dasho is also used for princes of the royal house,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4M1_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|title=The royal semi-authoritarian democracy of Bhutan|first=Dhurba P|last=Rizal|year=2015|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=9781498507479|oclc=906010256|page=13}} its female equivalent being Ashi.[https://books.google.com/books?id=T4BoEodH3JAC&dq=ashi+title+of+woman&pg=PA196 "Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan". Written by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Consort of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan)]