Pa

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

Arts, media and entertainment

• Parental Advisory, abbreviated PAL or PA, a warning label placed on audio recordings
• P.A. (group), a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Penny Arcade, a webcomic
• Planetary Annihilation, a 2014 video game
• "Pa" (song), by Tini
• Live PA

Businesses and organisations

Government, military, and politics

• Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
• Pakistan Army
• Patriotic Alliance, a South African political party
• Patriotic Alternative, a British nationalist group
• People's Association (Singapore), a Singaporean grassroots statutory board
• Philippine Army
• Patrulla Águila
• Planning Authority (Malta), a government agency of Malta
• Progressive Alliance, a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations

Airlines

• Pan American World Airways, IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
• Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010)
• Airblue, IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)

Other

• Pā, a traditional Maori settlement
• Professional association, a type of business organization
• PA Consulting Group
• PA Media, a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association
• Produttori Associati, an Italian record label

Linguistics

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

People

• Pa, an affectionate term for father
• Pa (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people

Job titles

• Parliamentary assistant (UK politics)
• Personal assistant
• Physician assistant or physician associate
• Political assistant
• Production assistant, a title in the film, media, and publishing industries
• Project architect
• Prosecuting attorney, title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions
• Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
• Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US

Places

United States

• Pennsylvania, US state (postal abbreviation PA)
• Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA
• Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
• Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas

Elsewhere

• Panama (ISO country code PA)
• Pará, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
• Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
• PA postcode area, Scotland
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Science and technology

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

Sports

• Paralympics Australia, previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia
• Pickleball Alberta

Other uses

• PA, a series of paper sizes
• Pā, a type of fortified Māori village
• Performance appraisal, for evaluating an employee's job performance
• Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
• Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing
• Public bill, also known as a Public Act, in law

See also

• P&A (disambiguation)