Pa

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

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 (Singapore), 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

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

 * 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

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

Places

 * Panama (ISO country code PA)
 * Pará, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
 * Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
 * Pennsylvania, US (postal abbreviation PA)
 * PA postcode area, Scotland
 * Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Massachusetts, United States, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA
 * Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Rhode Island, United States
 * Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

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

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
 * 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

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