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

Arts, media and entertainment

  • Parental Advisory, abbreviated PAL or PA, a warning label placed on audio recordings
  • P.A. (group), a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  • Penny Arcade, a webcomic
  • Planetary Annihilation, a 2014 video game
  • "Pa" (song), by Tini
  • Live PA

Businesses and organisations

Government, military, and politics

  • Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
  • Pakistan Army
  • Patriotic Alliance, a South African political party
  • Patriotic Alternative, a British nationalist group
  • People's Association, a Singaporean grassroots statutory board
  • Philippine Army
  • Patrulla Águila
  • Planning Authority (Malta), a government agency of Malta
  • Progressive Alliance, a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations
  • Prudential Authority, the South African government agency responsible for prudential regulation

Airlines

  • Pan American World Airways, IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
  • Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010)
  • Airblue, IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)

Other

  • Pā, a traditional Maori settlement
  • Professional association, a type of business organization
  • PA Consulting Group
  • PA Media, a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association
  • Produttori Associati, an Italian record label
  • Peterson Academy, online education platform

Linguistics

  • Pa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
  • 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-Algic
  • Proto-Algonquian
  • Proto-Altaic
  • Proto-Athabaskan
  • Proto-Austronesian

People

  • Pa, an affectionate term for father
  • Pa (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
  • Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people

Job titles

  • Parliamentary assistant (UK politics)
  • Personal assistant
  • Physician assistant or physician associate
  • Political assistant
  • Production assistant, a title in the film, media, and publishing industries
  • Project architect
  • Prosecuting attorney, title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions
  • Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
  • Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US

Places

United States

  • Pennsylvania, US state (postal abbreviation PA)
  • Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA
  • Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
  • Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas

Elsewhere

  • Panama (ISO country code PA)
  • Pará, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
  • Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
  • PA postcode area, Scotland
  • Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Science and technology

  • .pa, top-level domain for Panama
  • 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
  • Peptide amphiphile, a type of self-assembling peptide
  • Picoamp (pA), one trillionth of an ampere
  • Polyacrylamide, a gel-forming polymer
  • Polyamide, a family of synthetic materials used in fabrics
  • Predictive analytics, analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events
  • Protactinium, symbol Pa, a chemical element
  • Provider-aggregatable address space, a system of allocation of internet addresses
  • Public address system (PA system or simply PA), for making public announcements
  • Pernicious anemia, anemia that results from lack of intrinsic factor
  • Primary aldosteronism, excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands
  • RF power amplifier, a type of electronic amplifier

Sports

  • Paralympics Australia, previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia
  • Pickleball Alberta

Other uses

  • PA, a series of paper sizes
  • Pā, a type of fortified Māori village
  • Performance appraisal, for evaluating an employee's job performance
  • Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
  • Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing
  • Public bill, also known as a Public Act, in law
  • Papua (vehicle registration prefix PA)

See also

  • P&A (disambiguation)