Pa

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Pa may stand for:

• Pa, a word for dad or father ("pa" or "paw")
• Pa (Chinese), political title meaning hegemon (pinyin: Ba)
• Pa (Māori), word meaning a fortified village or redoubt
• Pascal (unit), SI unit of pressure
• Petayear, an unit of time
• Protactinium (Pa), symbol for the chemical element
• Pa Department, Burkina Faso

PA may stand for:

• Palestinian National Authority, interim organization that nominally governs parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
• Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator
• PA-RISC family processor architecture from Hewlett-Packard
• Paisley, postcode of the town in Scotland
• Palo Alto, California
• Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (IATA airline designator)
• Panama (ISO country code)
• Peano Axioms in mathematics
• Pennsylvania (United States postal abbreviation)
• Penny Arcade (webcomic), a popular gaming webcomic
• People's Association, in Singapore
• Performing artist
• Personal assistant
• Petampere or Peta-ampere, an SI unit of electric current (worth 10¹⁵ A)
• Phillips Academy, a private secondary school
• Physician Assistant, the medical profession
• Pictou Academy, a public secondary school
• Piper Aircraft, as the type designator prefix for aircraft made by the company
• Polyacetylene
• Polyamide, a kind of plastic
• Port Angeles, Washington a city in the United States
• Power amplifier
• Press Association, a UK news agency
• Prince Albert piercing
• Production assistant, a title in the film industry
• Professional Association
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Public address system, amplification equipment
• Public administration
• Public affairs
• Public Attorney
• Public audio
• Purple Angelica
• a series of paper sizes with 3:4 aspect ratio (most notably PA4)

pa may stand for:

• Panjabi language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)
• Per annum (also "p.a.")
• Parental Advisory

pA may stand for:

• Picoampere, an SI unit of electric current (worth 10⁻¹² A)