BA

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Contents 1 Corporations & institutions 2 Egyptian mythology 3 Language 4 Places 5 Other

BA, Ba or ba may stand for:

[edit] Corporations & institutions

• Bank of America
• Boeing Company (BA), stock symbol
• Boston and Albany Railroad (AAR reporting marks BA)
• British Airways (BA), IATA airline designator (a major British, International Airline)
• British Army (BA)
• British Association for the Advancement of Science (more usually BAAS)

[edit] Egyptian mythology

• Ba, one part of the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul (which was imagined as a bird body with a human head)
• Ba, Banebdjed, a ram-god of birth, essentially the soul (the ba) of Ausare (Osiris)
• Ba, or Kneph, a ram-god, of the soul, and thus of birth

[edit] Language

• ba, a formal nickname for the senior male person in Burmese community [Ah-Ba , Ba Ba, Ba Gyi]
• ba, an archaic two-letter English word meaning "to kiss"
• ba, a word for ram, in the Egyptian language
• Bashkir language (ba), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

[edit] Places

• Ba (town), a town in Fiji
• Ba Province, Fiji
• Ba (state), an ancient Chinese culture that straddled eastern Sichuan and western Hubei
• Bahamas (BA), WMO country code
• Bahia (BA), Brazilian state
• Bahrain (BA), FIPS 10-4 country code
• Barber County, Kansas (BA), state county code
• Bath (BA), UK postal area for the region in south-western England which is served by the Bath postal sorting office
• Bay Area, most notably, San Francisco Bay Area
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA), ISO 2-letter country code
  • .ba, the ccTLD for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Province of Bari, Italy (BA), ISO 3166-2:IT code

[edit] Other

• Bachelor of Arts
• B^A class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
• B.A. Baracus, a character played by Mr. T on the television series The A-Team
• barium (Ba), the chemical symbol for the element
• Breathing apparatus
• British Association screw threads (BA)
• Brodmann area, according to Korbinian Brodmann
• Biblical Archeologist, a magazine covering biblical archaeology.