# PA
## Translingual
### Etymology 1
#### Symbol

PA
* (metrology) Symbol for petaampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10$^{15}$ amperes.

### Etymology 2
#### Symbol

PA
* (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Panama.
    Synonym: PAN (alpha-3)

## English
### Proper noun

PA
* Abbreviation of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America.
** 1979 August 3, Talking Heads (lyrics and music), “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music:Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? / Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
* Abbreviation of Papua, a province of Indonesia.
* Abbreviation of Pará, a state of Brazil.
* Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
** 2023 November 27, Patrick Wintour, “Hamas cannot continue to rule Gaza, says EU foreign affairs chief”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:He believes that the PA is more entrenched inside Gaza than recognised, saying that, despite being ejected from Gaza as a political and security force in 2007, the PA was still delivering many public services including health and schools in Gaza.
* (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algonquian. (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc)
* (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algic. (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian)
* (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Athapaskan.
* Initialism of Prince Albert (“Saskatchewan city”).

### Noun

PA (countable and uncountable, plural PAs)
* Initialism of public address.
** 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 13, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 242:“Shuttle sensors detect no communications, heat signatures out of the ordinary, or other signals,” SAM-E said over the shuttle’s PA.
* Initialism of production assistant.
* Initialism of personal assistant.
** 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
    Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA. Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA! Jen: It means "personal assistant". Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.
* Initialism of personal appearance. (when a celebrity visits a public event)
* Initialism of power amplifier.
* Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
* Initialism of public accountant.
* (law) Initialism of public act.
* (medicine) Initialism of physician assistant.
* (medicine) Initialism of physician associate.
* (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide.
* (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
* Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
* (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery.
* (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
* Initialism of precision agriculture.
* (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.
    Coordinate term: PF
** 2022 December 14, “NFL Playoff picture Week 15: Are the New York Giants still in contention for the postseason?”, in Sportskeeda‎, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:The Giants and Commanders have the same record after 13 games each. However, Washington has control of third place in the NFC East due to a better PF/PA record in comparison to the Giants.

#### Derived terms

* PA speaker

### Adjective

PA (not comparable)
* (medicine) Initialism of posteroanterior.
    Coordinate term: AP (“anteroposterior”)
    Alternative form: P-A

### Phrase

PA
* Initialism of per annum.
    an interest rate of 3% PA

### Anagrams

* A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.

## Finnish
### Adjective

PA
* Alternative spelling of peeaa

## French
### Noun

PA m (plural PA)
* CV (“aircraft carrier”); Initialism of porte-avions.

### Anagrams

* AP

## Japanese
### Etymology

From English PA.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ピーエー [pìíéꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
* IPA: [pʲiːe̞ː]

### Noun

PA(ピーエー) • (pī-ē)
* PA system; public address system

#### Derived terms

* PA(ピーエー)システム (pī-ē shisutemu)
* PA(ピーエー)ブース (pī-ē būsu)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

PA m
* Abbreviation of Pará (“Brazilian state”).

## Spanish
### Noun

PA f (plural PA)
* (medicine) Initialism of presión arterial.
* (biology) Initialism of potencial de acción.

## Swedish
### Noun

PA c
* Initialism of personal assistant (“personal assistant”).
    Kontakta min PA så kan de boka in en tid för mötet.Contact my personal assistant and they will book a time for the meeting.

### See also

* personlig assistent (“unlicensed assistive personnel”)