PAP or Pap may refer to:

Places

  • Ancient Pap, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan
  • Pap, Hungary, a village in northeastern Hungary
  • Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
  • Paps of Fife in Scotland
  • Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
  • Paps of Lothian (disambiguation), in Scotland
  • Pap or Maiden Paps (disambiguation), rounded breast-shaped hills located mostly in Scotland
  • Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
  • Pap, Uzbekistan, a town and the administrative center of Pap District
  • Pap District, Uzbekistan

People

  • Pap (surname)
  • Pap (given name)
  • Pap (nickname)

Biology and medicine

  • Nipple or teat
  • Pap test or Pap smear, a method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix
  • Phosphatidic acid phosphatase, a key regulatory enzyme in lipid metabolism
  • Plasmin-α<sub>2</sub>-antiplasmin complex, an inactive complex of plasmin and antiplasmin
  • Polyadenylate polymerase, an enzyme involved in creation of mRNA tails
  • Positive airway pressure, a method of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea
  • Prostatic acid phosphatase, an enzyme produced by the prostate
  • Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a rare lung disorder

Chemistry

  • Phenthoate or PAP, an insecticide poisonous to humans
  • Purple acid phosphatases, metalloenzymes that hydrolyse phosphate esters and anhydrides
  • Phthalimidoperoxycaproic acid, a bleaching agent

Organizations

  • Palestinian Air Police, air force of Palestine
  • Pan-African Parliament, a legislative body of the African Union
  • People's Action Party, conservative political party that governs Singapore
  • Other political parties known as "People's Action Party"
  • People's Alternative Party, a political party in Malaysia
  • People's Armed Police, a paramilitary police force in China
  • Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa), a news agency in Poland
  • Power to the People (Italy), a coalition of political parties in Italy

Technology

  • Password Authentication Protocol
  • Permissible Actions Protocol in cybersecurity
  • Policy Administration Point, in the XACML markup language
  • Printer Access Protocol, a network protocol for talking to printers in an AppleTalk network
  • Push Access Protocol, part of the Wireless Application Protocol suite

Firearms

  • PAP M59, nicknamed Papovka, Yugoslav variants of Soviet SKS semi-automatic military rifles
  • Zastava PAP series, Poluautomatska puška (semi-automatic rifle/pistol), Serbian sporting weapons

Other

  • pap, Papiamento or Papiamentu ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code
  • Pap, a Dutch word for porridge
  • Pap, a colloquial term for some types of baby food, particularly those homemade from soft bread
  • Pap or mieliepap (Afrikaans for maize porridge), a traditional porridge/polenta and staple food in South Africa
  • Pap or Bilz y Pap, a brand name of soft drinks in Chile
  • PAP, a code for paper in recycling codes 20, 21, and 22
  • PAP, IATA code for Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • Perth–Augusta–Perth, a cycling event in Western Australia
  • PAP-k, k primes in arithmetic progression in mathematics
  • Post-activation potentiation, a physiological response utilized in sports training and especially in Complex training
  • Pre-authorized payment, a term sometimes used for Direct debit
  • An internet slang for Post a Picture
  • Paap, a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film
  • Paap (TV series), an Indian Bengali-language web series