# 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
* 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 (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

## 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

## 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