Para, or PARA, may refer to:

Businesses, professions, and organizations

Paramount Global Paramount Global (Trade name, d/b/a Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and Headquarters, headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, ...

, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange * Para Group, the former name of CT Corp * Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer *

Para USA Para USA (Para) was an American-owned firearms manufacturer. It was the successor to Para-Ordnance, founded in Canada in 1985. It specialized in making M1911-style semi-automatic pistols and components. The company was acquired by Remington O ...

, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer * Pan American Rugby Association * Philippine Amateur Radio Association *

Paraprofessional Paraprofessional is a title given to individuals in various occupational fields, such as education, librarianship, healthcare, engineering, and law. Historically, paraprofessionals assisted the master professional of their field. In more recent ti ...

Paralegal A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant or paralegal specialist, is a legal professional who performs tasks that require knowledge of legal concepts but not the full expertise of a lawyer with an admission to practice law. The market for p ...

Paramilitary A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934. Overview Though a paramilitary is, by definiti ...

, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such *

Paramedic A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), ...

Parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

, the study of alleged psychic phenomena

People

* Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes * Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos * Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva *

Pará (footballer, born 2002) Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa (born 18 February 2002), commonly known as Pará, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Amazonas. Club career Pará was born in Marituba, Pará, and joined Juventude's youth setup in 2017, aged fif ...

, Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa * André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player * Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer *

Begum Para Begum Para (née Zubeda Ul Haq; 25 December 1926 – 9 December 2008) was an Indian Hindi film actress. She was active mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. After almost 50 years of absence in the industry, she returned to films with her last role i ...

(1926–2008), Indian film actress

Places

* Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality *

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, a state of Brazil *

Para (community development block) Para is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Background The ''Jaina Bhagavati-Sutra'' of the 5th centu ...

, Purulia district, West Bengal, India **

Para, Purulia Para is a village, with a police station, in the Para CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in West Bengal, India. Geography Location Para is located at . Area overview Purulia district forms the lowest step ...

Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Para is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 245 Para Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the fo ...

Para, Jhabua Para is a village in Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pra ...

, Madhya Pradesh, India *

Para, Rajasthan Para is a village in Kekri district, in Rajasthan state of India. As of 2011 census of India, its population is 3752.

, India *

Para, Unnao Para is a village in Hilauli block of Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 7,701, in 1,262 households, and it has 6 primary schools and no healthcare facilities. It hosts a regular market and has a sub post office ...

, Uttar Pradesh, India *

Para, Raebareli Para is a village in Harchandpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 2,142, in 408 households. It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities. The 1961 census recorded Para as comprising ...

, Uttar Pradesh, India *

Para, Ivory Coast Para is a village is southwestern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Djouroutou, Tabou Department, San-Pédro Region, Bas-Sassandra District. Para was a commune from October 2005 until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 commune ...

Para District Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, and Zanderij. Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km2. The district is the mining and forestry centre of Sur ...

, Suriname *

Para River (disambiguation) Para River may refer to: * Pará River in Brazil * Pará River (Minas Gerais) in southeastern Brazil * Para Creek in Suriname. Sometimes called Para River * Para River in India's Himachal Pradesh that flows through Ladakh and Tibet * Para (Russia) ...

La Para La Para (also named ''La Pare'' or ''La Tornette'') is a mountain of the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud Vaud ( ; , ), more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons formi ...

, a summit in the Swiss Alps

Science and technology

Parity (biology) In biology and medicine, gravidity and parity are the number of times a female has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age (parity). These two terms are usually coupled, sometimes with additional terms, t ...

, the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc. * Para, common name of fern ''

Ptisana salicina ''Ptisana salicina'', or king fern, is a species of fern native to Norfolk Island, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Large and robust with a distinctive tropical appearance, it has fronds up to 5 metres (16 feet +/-) tall that arise from a star ...

'' * para, symbol for the fruit fly gene '' paralytic (gene)'' *

Para- (chemistry) Arene substitution patterns are part of organic chemistry IUPAC nomenclature and pinpoint the position of substituents other than hydrogen in relation to each other on an aromatic hydrocarbon. ''Ortho'', ''meta'', and ''para'' substitution * I ...

, a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon * Para red, a dye

Special forces

Para Commando Brigade (Bangladesh) The Para Commando Brigade () is a special forces, special operations force of the Bangladesh Army. This special forces brigade is headquartered at Jalalabad Cantonment, Sylhet. It is composed of two paratrooper, para commando battalions. The in ...

, special forces of the

Bangladeshi Army The Bangladesh Army () is the land warfare Military branch, branch, and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Army is to defend the land of Bangladesh from any external attack. Control of personnel and ...

Para (Special Forces) The Para (Special Forces), informally referred to as Para SF, is a group of special forces battalions of the Parachute Regiment (India), Parachute Regiment in the Indian Army. These units specialise in various roles including counter-insurgen ...

, special forces of the

Indian Army The Indian Army (IA) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Land warfare, land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head ...

Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) The Parachute Regiment, known colloquially as the Paras, is the Airborne forces, airborne and elite infantry regiment of the British Army. The 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, first battalion is part of the Special Forces Support Group under ...

, elite infantry of the

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

, known as The Paras *

Paratrooper A paratrooper or military parachutist is a soldier trained to conduct military operations by parachuting directly into an area of operations, usually as part of a large airborne forces unit. Traditionally paratroopers fight only as light infa ...

, a military parachutist ** Para Commandos (disambiguation), a paratrooper and commando

Other uses

Para (currency) The ''para'' (; from , meaning 'piece') was a term given to former currencies of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian Serbian dinar, dinar. In 1524 ...

, a former currency of the Ottoman Empire * Para language, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma * Para Handy, a fictional character in the ''Glasgow Evening News'' * Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti * Brazilian ship ''Pará'', a list of ships *

Juz' A ''juzʼ'' (Arabic: ; : , ''ajzāʼ''; ) is one of thirty parts of varying lengths into which the Quran is divided. It is also known as parah ( Persian: ) in Iran and subsequently the Indian subcontinent. There are 30 ''ajzāʼ'' in the Quran, ...