{{Wiktionary|Pa|PA|pa}} '''Pa''', '''pa''', '''PA''', '''P.A.''' or '''pA''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}
== Arts, media and entertainment == *Parental Advisory, abbreviated '''PAL''' or '''PA''', a warning label placed on audio recordings *P.A. (group), a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States *''Penny Arcade'', a webcomic *''Planetary Annihilation'', a 2014 video game *"Pa" (song), by Tini *Live PA
== Businesses and organisations == ===Government, military, and politics=== * Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank * Pakistan Army * Patriotic Alliance, a South African political party * Patriotic Alternative, a British nationalist group * People's Association, a Singaporean grassroots statutory board * Philippine Army * Patrulla Águila * Planning Authority (Malta), a government agency of Malta * Progressive Alliance, a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations * Prudential Authority, the South African government agency responsible for prudential regulation
===Airlines=== * Pan American World Airways, IATA airline designator PA (to 1991) * Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010) * Airblue, IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)
===Other=== * Pā, a traditional Maori settlement * Professional association, a type of business organization * PA Consulting Group * PA Media, a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association * Produttori Associati, an Italian record label * Peterson Academy, online education platform
== Linguistics == * Pa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign * Pa (Javanese) (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script * Punjabi language (ISO 639-1 language code pa) * Abbreviation for several languages, including: ** Proto-Afro-Asiatic ** Proto-Algic ** Proto-Algonquian ** Proto-Altaic ** Proto-Athabaskan ** Proto-Austronesian
==People== * Pa, an affectionate term for father * Pa (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname * Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
=== Job titles === * Parliamentary assistant (UK politics) * Personal assistant * Physician assistant or physician associate * Political assistant * Production assistant, a title in the film, media, and publishing industries * Project architect * Prosecuting attorney, title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions * Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy * Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US
==Places== === United States === * Pennsylvania, US state (postal abbreviation PA) * Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as ''Phillips Andover'' or ''PA'' * Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island * Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas
=== Elsewhere === * Panama (ISO country code PA) * Pará, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR) * Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso * PA postcode area, Scotland * Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
== Science and technology== * .pa, top-level domain for Panama * ALCO PA, a railroad locomotive * Parental alienation, in psychology * Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure * Peano axioms, a set of axioms for the natural numbers * Peptide amphiphile, a type of self-assembling peptide * Picoamp (pA), one trillionth of an ampere * Polyacrylamide, a gel-forming polymer * Polyamide, a family of synthetic materials used in fabrics * Predictive analytics, analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events * Protactinium, symbol Pa, a chemical element * Provider-aggregatable address space, a system of allocation of internet addresses * Public address system (PA system or simply PA), for making public announcements * Pernicious anemia, anemia that results from lack of intrinsic factor * Primary aldosteronism, excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands * RF power amplifier, a type of electronic amplifier
==Sports== * Paralympics Australia, previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia * Pickleball Alberta
== Other uses == * PA, a series of paper sizes * Pā, a type of fortified Māori village * Performance appraisal, for evaluating an employee's job performance * Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball * Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing * Public bill, also known as a Public Act, in law * Papua (vehicle registration prefix PA)
== See also == * P&A (disambiguation)
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