# Pa

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**Pa**, **pa**, **PA**, **P.A.** or **pA** may refer to:

## Arts, media and entertainment

- [Parental Advisory](/source/Parental_Advisory), abbreviated **PAL** or **PA**, a warning label placed on audio recordings
- [P.A. (group)](/source/P.A._(group)), a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- *[Penny Arcade](/source/Penny_Arcade)*, a webcomic
- *[Planetary Annihilation](/source/Planetary_Annihilation)*, a 2014 video game
- ["Pa" (song)](/source/Pa_(song)), by Tini
- [Live PA](/source/Live_PA)

## Businesses and organisations

### Government, military, and politics

- [Palestinian National Authority](/source/Palestinian_National_Authority), also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
- [Pakistan Army](/source/Pakistan_Army)
- [Patriotic Alliance](/source/Patriotic_Alliance), a South African political party
- [Patriotic Alternative](/source/Patriotic_Alternative), a British nationalist group
- [People's Association](/source/People's_Association), a Singaporean grassroots statutory board
- [Philippine Army](/source/Philippine_Army)
- [Patrulla Águila](/source/Patrulla_%C3%81guila)
- [Planning Authority (Malta)](/source/Planning_Authority_(Malta)), a government agency of Malta
- [Progressive Alliance](/source/Progressive_Alliance), a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations
- [Prudential Authority](/source/Prudential_Authority), the South African government agency responsible for prudential regulation

### Airlines

- [Pan American World Airways](/source/Pan_American_World_Airways), IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
- [Florida Coastal Airlines](/source/Florida_Coastal_Airlines), IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010)
- [Airblue](/source/Airblue), IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)

### Other

- [Pā](/source/P%C4%81), a traditional Maori settlement
- [Professional association](/source/Professional_association), a type of business organization
- [PA Consulting Group](/source/PA_Consulting_Group)
- [PA Media](/source/PA_Media), a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association
- [Produttori Associati](/source/Produttori_Associati), an Italian record label
- [Peterson Academy](/source/Peterson_Academy), online education platform

## Linguistics

- [Pa (cuneiform)](/source/Pa_(cuneiform)), a cuneiform sign
- [Pa (Javanese)](/source/Pa_(Javanese)) (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script
- [Punjabi language](/source/Punjabi_language) (ISO 639-1 language code pa)
- Abbreviation for several languages, including: - [Proto-Afro-Asiatic](/source/Proto-Afroasiatic_language) - [Proto-Algic](/source/Proto-Algic) - [Proto-Algonquian](/source/Proto-Algonquian) - [Proto-Altaic](/source/Proto-Altaic) - [Proto-Athabaskan](/source/Proto-Athabaskan) - [Proto-Austronesian](/source/Proto-Austronesian)

## People

- Pa, an affectionate term for [father](/source/Father)
- [Pa (name)](/source/Pa_(name)), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
- [Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa](/source/Pa_Drengen_Changchop_Simpa), a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people

### Job titles

- [Parliamentary assistant](/source/Parliamentary_assistant) (UK politics)
- [Personal assistant](/source/Personal_assistant)
- [Physician assistant](/source/Physician_assistant) or physician associate
- [Political assistant](/source/Political_assistant_(disambiguation))
- [Production assistant](/source/Production_assistant), a title in the film, media, and publishing industries
- [Project architect](/source/Project_architect)
- [Prosecuting attorney](/source/Prosecuting_attorney), title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions
- [Protonotary Apostolic](/source/Protonotary_Apostolic), the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
- [Public Accountant](/source/Public_Accountant), a professional qualification in the US

## Places

### United States

- [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), US state (postal abbreviation PA)
- [Phillips Academy Andover](/source/Phillips_Academy_Andover), a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as *Phillips Andover* or *PA*
- [Portsmouth Abbey School](/source/Portsmouth_Abbey_School), a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
- [Pulaski Academy](/source/Pulaski_Academy), a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas

### Elsewhere

- [Panama](/source/Panama) (ISO country code PA)
- [Pará](/source/Par%C3%A1), Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
- [Pâ](/source/P%C3%A2), a town in Burkina Faso
- [PA postcode area](/source/PA_postcode_area), Scotland
- [Prince Albert, Saskatchewan](/source/Prince_Albert,_Saskatchewan), Canada

## Science and technology

- [.pa](/source/.pa), top-level domain for Panama
- [ALCO PA](/source/ALCO_PA), a railroad locomotive
- [Parental alienation](/source/Parental_alienation), in psychology
- [Pascal (unit)](/source/Pascal_(unit)), the SI unit of pressure
- [Peano axioms](/source/Peano_axioms), a set of axioms for the natural numbers
- [Peptide amphiphile](/source/Peptide_amphiphile), a type of self-assembling peptide
- [Picoamp](/source/Picoamp) (pA), one trillionth of an ampere
- [Polyacrylamide](/source/Polyacrylamide), a gel-forming polymer
- [Polyamide](/source/Polyamide), a family of synthetic materials used in fabrics
- [Predictive analytics](/source/Predictive_analytics), analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events
- [Protactinium](/source/Protactinium), symbol Pa, a chemical element
- [Provider-aggregatable address space](/source/Provider-aggregatable_address_space), a system of allocation of internet addresses
- [Public address system](/source/Public_address_system) (PA system or simply PA), for making public announcements
- [Pernicious anemia](/source/Pernicious_anemia), anemia that results from lack of intrinsic factor
- [Primary aldosteronism](/source/Primary_aldosteronism), excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands
- [RF power amplifier](/source/RF_power_amplifier), a type of electronic amplifier

## Sports

- [Paralympics Australia](/source/Paralympics_Australia), previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia
- [Pickleball Alberta](/source/Pickleball_in_Canada#Governing_body)

## Other uses

- PA, a series of [paper sizes](/source/Paper_size#PA_series)
- [Pā](/source/P%C4%81), a type of fortified Māori village
- [Performance appraisal](/source/Performance_appraisal), for evaluating an employee's job performance
- [Plate appearance](/source/Plate_appearance), a statistic in baseball
- [Prince Albert (genital piercing)](/source/Prince_Albert_(genital_piercing)), a form of male genital piercing
- [Public bill](/source/Public_bill), also known as a Public Act, in law
- Papua ([vehicle registration](/source/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indonesia) prefix PA)

## See also

- [P&A (disambiguation)](/source/P%26A_(disambiguation))

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