Pa

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PA, Pa, pA, or pa may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• P.A. (group), a southern hip hop trio in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Penny Arcade, a video game webcomic

Businesses and organisations

Government and military

• Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority
• Pakistan Army
• Philippine Army

Other businesses and organisations

• Florida Coastal Airlines (IATA airline designator) (1995+)
• PA Consulting Group
• Pan American World Airways (IATA airline designator) (–1991)
• Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Rhode Island, United States
• Phillips Academy, a private secondary school in Massachusetts, United States
• Press Association, the UK and Ireland's national multimedia news agency
• Produttori Associati, an Italian record label
• Professional association, a type of business organization

Linguistics

• Pa (Javanese) (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script
• Punjabi language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code pa)
• Abbreviation for several languages, including:
  • Proto-Afro-Asiatic
  • Proto-Algonquian or Proto-Algic
  • Proto-Altaic
  • Proto-Athabaskan
  • Proto-Austronesian

Science and technology

Medicine and psychology

• Parental Alienation, in psychology
• Physician assistant (US) or physician associate (UK)

Other uses in science and technology

• ALCO PA, a railroad locomotive
• Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure
• Synthetic polyamides, a family of materials used in fabrics
• Protactinium, a chemical element with symbol Pa and atomic number 91
• Provider-aggregatable address space, a system of allocation of internet addresses
• Public address system (PA System), for making public announcements

Other uses

• Pa, an affectionate term for father
• Pā, a type of fortified Māori village
• PA, a series of paper sizes
• Live PA, a live performance artist or personal appearance
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
• Pennsylvania, US (postal abbreviation)
• Per annum, Latin for "per year"
• Personal assistant
• Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
• Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing
• Production assistant, a title in the film industry
• Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
• Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US

See also

• P&A (disambiguation)