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Para may refer to:
Miscellaneous
- Para (currency), various currency units
- Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
- Para, the Hebrew word for cow
- Para, Spanish preposition, which means for
- Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (seven upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
- Para-quaternions, expression from algebra in mathematics
- Military parachutist or paratrooper
- Para, a member of the Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
- Para, an arene substitution pattern in which two substituents occupy positions on an aromatic ring separated by two unsubstituted carbon atoms
- Parapraxis or Freudian slip (Fehlleistung), is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind
- Juz', a division of the Quran
- Para language
- Paraprofessional
Sports
- Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
- Erinaldo Santos Rabelo (born 1987), Brazilian footballer
- Anderson Ferreira da Silva (born 1995), Brazilian footballer
- André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), Brazilian water polo player who is nicknamed Pará
- Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
- Paralympic Games are the international games for athletes with a disability
- PARA Pan American Championship, the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, organized by the Pan American Rugby Association
Biology
- Parity (biology), the number of times a woman has given birth
- Para Dog-faced Bat, a bat species from South and Central America
- Para rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree
- Para Spiny Rat, a species from South America
- Para (Ptisana salicina), a fern found in New Zealand and Norfolk Island
Chemistry
- Para isomer in chemistry, a type of arene substitution pattern
- Para Red, a chemical dye
Companies and organizations
- Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer located in Toronto, Ontario
- Philippine Amateur Radio Association, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in the Philippines
- Peoples Action for Rural Awakening, is a social action initiative of Don Bosco Mission in India. PARA is located in Ravulapalem in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh in South India
- Parachute Regiment (disambiguation)
- Para-statal companies, State-owned corporations that play a major role in the government and economy of many countries around the world
- Para Rubber, a New Zealand-based brand of rubber foam products, originally part of the Skellerup Group
Entertainment
- Para-balloon, a tool for games or a series of games around this tool
- Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro
- Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
- Para Para Paradise, a 2000 video series, showing various dancers doing Para Para
Places
- Grão-Pará, was one of the two Portuguese vice-kingdoms in South America
- Pará, one of the states of Brazil
- Para District, a district in the north of Suriname (country in South America)
- Pará River (Portuguese: Rio Pará), the southern arm of the mouth of the Amazon River
- North Para River, through the Barossa Valley in South Australia
- South Para River, South Australia
- South Para Reservoir, the second largest reservoir in South Australia
- Electoral district of Little Para, an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly
- Little Para River, through Salisbury in South Australia
- Little Para Reservoir, a reservoir in South Australia serving the city of Adelaide. It was built between 1974 and 1977, costing A$11.5 million, and commissioned in January 1979
- La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps
- Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Purulia district, West Bengal, India
- Para (community development block) in Purulia district, West Bengal, India
- Para, Ivory Coast, a village in Bas-Sassandra District, Ivory Coast
- Para, Bangladesh, a village located in the Srimangal region of Bangladesh
- Para, Rajasthan, a village in India
References
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