The word Pala can refer to many different things:
Places
- Pala, California, a town in the United States
- Pala Casino Resort and Spa, a casino located in Pala, California
- Pala, Chad, a town
- Pala (East Timor), a town on Atauro Island, East Timor
- Pala (or Palai), a town in Kerala, India
- Pala Commune, a rural municipality in Estonia
- Pala Lake, a protected wetland on Aunu'u, American Samoa
History
- Pala Empire, an empire of ancient Bengal on the Indian subcontinent
- Pala, the region in Anatolia during the Bronze Age which spoke the Palaic language; it was to the northwest of Hattusa on the other side of Mount Asharpaya
- Pala a Small Riverside Town In Kerala,South India
People
- Pala (tribe), a native California tribe
Other
- Pala (sword), a shorter kind of Turkish sword or kilij
- Pala, a fictional island in Island (novel), by Aldous Huxley
- Pala, an Italian word meaning 'shovel, paddle, blade'; in art, it can mean an altarpiece (pala d'altare)
- Pala, in Sanskrit, a term meaning 'protector'. Can refer to a form of wrathful deity, in Buddhism.
- Pala, a folk-theatre form, native to Orissa, akined to jatra of Bengal.
- PALA (biochemistry), nickname for N-(Phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate, a potent competitive inhibitor of the enzyme aspartate transcarbamoylase
- Pala, a fictional town in Far Cry 2
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