Pa, pa, PA, P.A. or pA may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
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Parental Advisory, abbreviated PAL or PA, a warning label placed on audio recordings
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P.A. (group), a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Penny Arcade, a webcomic
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Planetary Annihilation, a 2014 video game
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"Pa" (song), by Tini
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Live PA
Businesses and organisations
Government, military, and politics
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Palestinian National Authority, also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
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Pakistan Army
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Patriotic Alliance, a South African political party
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Patriotic Alternative, a British nationalist group
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People's Association (Singapore), a Singaporean grassroots statutory board
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Philippine Army
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Patrulla Águila
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Planning Authority (Malta), a government agency of Malta
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Progressive Alliance, a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations
Airlines
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Pan American World Airways, IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
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Florida Coastal Airlines, IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010)
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Airblue, IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)
Other
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Pā, a traditional Maori settlement
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Professional association, a type of business organization
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PA Consulting Group
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PA Media, a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association
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Produttori Associati, an Italian record label
Linguistics
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Pa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
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Pa (Javanese) (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script
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Punjabi language (ISO 639-1 language code pa)
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Abbreviation for several languages, including:
People
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Pa, an affectionate term for father
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Pa (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
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Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people
Job titles
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Parliamentary assistant (UK politics)
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Personal assistant
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Physician assistant or physician associate
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Political assistant
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Production assistant, a title in the film, media, and publishing industries
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Project architect
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Prosecuting attorney, title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions
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Protonotary Apostolic, the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
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Public Accountant, a professional qualification in the US
Places
United States
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Pennsylvania, US state (postal abbreviation PA)
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Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA
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Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas
Elsewhere
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Panama (ISO country code PA)
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Pará, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
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Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
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PA postcode area, Scotland
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Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
Science and technology
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.pa, top-level domain for Panama
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ALCO PA, a railroad locomotive
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Parental alienation, in psychology
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Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure
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Peano axioms, a set of axioms for the natural numbers
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Peptide amphiphile, a type of self-assembling peptide
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Picoamp (pA), one trillionth of an ampere
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Polyacrylamide, a gel-forming polymer
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Polyamide, a family of synthetic materials used in fabrics
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Predictive analytics, analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events
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Protactinium, symbol Pa, a chemical element
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Provider-aggregatable address space, a system of allocation of internet addresses
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Public address system (PA system or simply PA), for making public announcements
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Pernicious anemia, anemia that results from lack of intrinsic factor
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Primary aldosteronism, excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands
Sports
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Paralympics Australia, previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia
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Pickleball Alberta
Other uses
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PA, a series of paper sizes
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Pā, a type of fortified Māori village
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Performance appraisal, for evaluating an employee's job performance
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Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
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Prince Albert (genital piercing), a form of male genital piercing
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Public bill, also known as a Public Act, in law
See also
