Pa

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

Linguistics

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

Military

• Pā, a fortified Māori village
• Pakistan Army
• Philippine Army

Organisations

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

Other uses

• Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority
• Pascal (unit), the S.I. unit of pressure
• Protactinium, IUPAC symbol a chemical element with symbol Pa and atomic number 91
• ALCO PA, a railroad locomotive
• Live PA, a live performance artist or personal appearance
• Pa, an affectionate term for father
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, the mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
• PA, the postal service abbreviation for Pennsylvania, a state in the United States
• P.A. (group), a southern hip hop trio in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• PA series of paper sizes
• Penny Arcade, a video game webcomic
• Per annum
• Personal assistant
• Physician assistant (US) or physician associate (UK)
• Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
• Synthetic polyamides, a family of materials used for fabrics
• 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
• Provider-aggregatable address space, an system of allocation of internet addresses
• Public Accountant, a US qualification
• Public address system (PA System), for making public announcements

See also

• P&A (disambiguation)