# PAP

PAP or Pap may refer to:

## Places

* Ancient Pap, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan
* Pap, Hungary, a village in northeastern Hungary
* Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
* Paps of Fife in Scotland
* Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* Paps of Lothian in Scotland
* Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, Scotland
* Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
* Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
* Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
* Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
* Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
* Pap, Uzbekistan, a town and the administrative center of Pap District
** Pap District, Uzbekistan

## People

* Pap (surname)
* Pap (given name)
* Pap (nickname)

## Biology and medicine

* Nipple or teat
* Pap test or Pap smear, a method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix
* Phosphatidic acid phosphatase, a key regulatory enzyme in lipid metabolism
* Plasmin-α$_2$-antiplasmin complex, an inactive complex of plasmin and antiplasmin
* Polyadenylate polymerase, an enzyme involved in creation of mRNA tails
* Positive airway pressure, a method of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea
* Prostatic acid phosphatase, an enzyme produced by the prostate
* Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a rare lung disorder

## Chemistry

* Phenthoate or PAP, an insecticide poisonous to humans
* Purple acid phosphatases, metalloenzymes that hydrolyse phosphate esters and anhydrides
* Phthalimidoperoxycaproic acid, a bleaching agent

## Organizations

* Pan-African Parliament, a legislative body of the African Union
* People's Action Party (disambiguation)
* People's Alternative Party, a political party in Malaysia
* People's Armed Police, a paramilitary police force in China
* Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa), a news agency in Poland
* Power to the People (Italy), a coalition of political parties in Italy

## Technology

* Password Authentication Protocol
* Permissible Actions Protocol in cybersecurity
* Policy Administration Point, in the XACML markup language
* Printer Access Protocol, a network protocol for talking to printers in an AppleTalk network
* Push Access Protocol, part of the Wireless Application Protocol suite

### Firearms

* PAP M59, nicknamed Papovka, Yugoslav variants of Soviet SKS semi-automatic military rifles
* Zastava PAP series, Poluautomatska puška (semi-automatic rifle/pistol), Serbian sporting weapons

## Other

* pap, Papiamento or Papiamentu ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code
* Pap, a Dutch word for porridge
** Pap, a colloquial term for some types of baby food, particularly those homemade from soft bread
** Pap or mieliepap (Afrikaans for maize porridge), a traditional porridge/polenta and staple food in South Africa
* Pap or Maiden Paps are rounded breast-shaped hills located mostly in Scotland
* Pap or Bilz y Pap, a brand name of soft drinks in Chile
* PAP, a code for paper in recycling codes 20, 21, and 22
* PAP, IATA code for Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
* Perth–Augusta–Perth, a cycling event in Western Australia
* PAP-k, k primes in arithmetic progression in mathematics
* Post-activation potentiation, a physiological response utilized in sports training and especially in Complex training
* Pre-authorized payment, a term sometimes used for Direct debit
* An internet slang for Post a Picture
* Paap, a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film
* Paap (TV series), an Indian Bengali-language web series