para

Para may refer to:

• Para-, in English, is usually an affix of one of these origins:
  • Greek origin meaning "beside", "near", "past", "beyond", or "contrary"
  • French "pare à" = "prepare for"
  • Pará, A Federated State in the north of Brazil
• Para Dog-faced Bat, a bat species from South and Central America
• Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (seven upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
• Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer located in Toronto, Ontario
• Parapraxis or Freudian Slip (Fehlleistung) is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind.
• Para-quaternions, expression from algebra in mathematics
• Para Red, is a chemical dye
• Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree
• Para Spiny Rat, a species from South America
• Para-statals, state-owned corporations that play a major role in the government and economy of many countries around the world
• Para (Marattia salicina), a fern found in New Zealand and Norfolk Island
• Para isomer in chemistry, a type of arene substitution pattern
• André Cordeiro, a Brazilian water polo player who is nicknamed Pará
• The suffix 'para' is used after a noun in Assamese to define a village or a town. e.g. Goalpara
• A member of the Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)
• Para- isomers of benzene rings have attached chemical groups separated by two unsubstituted carbon atoms
• Paramedic is a first response ambulance crew member.
• Paralympics are the international games for disabled athletes.

Abbreviations

• Philippine Amateur Radio Association
• Pan American Rugby Association
  • PARA Pan American Championship, the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, organized by the Pan American Rugby Association
• Peoples Action for Rural Awakening

Entertainment

• Para abajo, a dance movement in salsa
• Para-balloon, a tool for games or a series of games around this tools
• Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro
  • The Tales of Para Handy, a Scottish television series
• Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
  • Para Para Paradise, a video series, showing various dancers doing Para Para
• Para Toda Vida (2001), an album by The New Amsterdams

People

• Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer

Places

• Grão-Pará, was one of the two Portuguese vice-kingdoms in South America
• Pará, one of the states of Brazil
• Para District, a district in the north of Suriname (country in South America)
• Pará River (Portuguese: Rio Pará), the southern arm of the mouth of the Amazon River
• North Para River, through the Barossa Valley in South Australia
• South Para River, South Australia
  • South Para Reservoir, the second largest reservoir in South Australia
• Electoral district of Little Para, an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly
• Little Para River, through Salisbury in South Australia
  • Little Para Reservoir
• Para, Purulia is a town, community development bloc and assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal
• La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps

Currency

• Para (currency), various currency units
• Para means "money" in Turkish and other languages influenced by Turkish in their history (including Serbian and Bulgarian)
  • Para was a subunit of Ottoman currency
  • Para was ¹⁄₄₀₀₀ of the Turkish lira
  • Para was ¹⁄₄₀ of the Romanian leu
  • Para is ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the Yugoslav dinar and Serbian dinar
  • Para was ¹⁄₁₀₀ of the Montenegrin perper

In other languages

• Para means "money" in Turkish
• Para in Lithuanian roughly means "daynight", "24 hours", or "circadia" but has no direct English equivalent.
• Para is short for paratrooper in French.
• Para is a preposition, and a conjunction in Spanish, with no direct equivalent in English. It roughly means "for" as a preposition, "in order to" as a conjunction, and "stop" as an informal singular command, where it is often written with an accent as Pára. The word as a similar usage in Portuguese as a preposition, conjunction, and command.
• Para in Bengali, a word which means a "neighbourhood" or "locality"
• Para means "cow" in Hebrew
• Para means "pair/couple" in Russian and Polish
• Para means "steam/vapor" in Polish, Slovak, Serbian, Bulgarian
• Para is the term for a ¹⁄₃₀ portion of the Qur'an in Urdu, Hindi, and Persian (the equivalent Arabic term is جزء, juz', "part")
• Para in Sanskrit is an adjective meaning "transcendental" ^[1].
• Para Shakti (Sanskrit,) "the great or supreme or light or heat force"^[2].
• Para Tattva, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Supreme Truth"

References

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