Para

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Para may refer to:

• Para-, in English, is an affix of Greek and Latin origin meaning beside, near, past, beyond or contrary
• 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
• 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

Abbreviations

• 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

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 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 is short for paratrooper in French.
• Para means "stop" in Portuguese and Spanish
• Para in Bengali, a word which means a neighbourhood or locality
• Para is a preposition in Portuguese and Spanish meaning "for,"
• 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 Shakti (Sanskrit,) "the great or supreme or light or heat force"^[1].
• Para Tattva, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Supreme Truth"

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