Pa

Pa is an informal term for father.

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

Businesses and organisations

Government and military

• Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
• Pakistan Army
• Philippine Army
• Patrulla Águila

Other

• Professional association, a type of business organization
• Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator PA (from 1995)
• PA Consulting Group
• Pan American World Airways, IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
• Press Association, the UK and Ireland's national multimedia news agency
• Produttori Associati, an Italian record label

Schools

• Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Massachusetts, United States, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA
• Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Rhode Island, United States
• Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Linguistics

• 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-Algonquian or Proto-Algic
  • Proto-Altaic
  • Proto-Athabaskan
  • Proto-Austronesian

Places

• Panama (ISO country code PA)
• Pennsylvania, US (postal abbreviation PA)
• Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
• PA postcode area, Scotland

Job titles

• Personal assistant
• Physician assistant (US) or physician associate (UK)
• Production assistant, a title in the film industry
• Project architect
• Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US

Science and technology

• 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
• 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 or simply PA), for making public announcements
• Synthetic polyamides, a family of materials used in fabrics

People

• Pa, an affectionate term for father
• Pa (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname

Law

• Public Act

Other uses

• Pā, a type of fortified Māori village
• Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
• Performance appraisal, for evaluating an employee's job performance
• P.A. (group), a southern hip hop trio in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Penny Arcade, a video game webcomic
• PA, a series of paper sizes
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
• Per annum, Latin for "per year"
• Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
• Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing

See also

• P&A (disambiguation)